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Honored ContributorIP core business model
How does the IP core business model work? Clearly there is some cost for the R&D to construct and validate the core, produce documentation, test vectors, etc. Once a customer gets past the...
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Honored ContributorAvatar is right.
In the ASIC industry, the companies that sold only IP-cores, with few exceptions, failed as a business model. The 1 exception I know of is ARM Ltd. (which is now joined with Artisan Components.) Perhaps the FPGA-developers will prove more successful with third-party companies who only do IP. (So far, they haven't.)
