Mountain Star and MediaTek purchase this tier of patent license. It offers low flexibility and a low licensing fee, but carries high royalties. The trade-off is a fast time-to-market.
The third type is a use license, which only allows clients to use the pre-packaged CPU core. It cannot be modified or extended and is typically used for embedded systems or the low-end market.
It has the lowest licensing fee and the poorest flexibility, and is mostly used for inexpensive IoT chips.
The chips used in Ofo bikes and Cloud Speed Express lockers are basically the product of this type of license.
Chen Yansen planned to license out the Orange Z1 at a low price. The first priority was to seize the market.
Nurture the market early on, then harvest it later.
Develop one generation, deploy one generation, and keep one in reserve!
The Orange Z1 was just the beginning of Orange Technology's in-house CPU architecture, not the end.
