Is their monopoly on the mobile processing business a bad thing?

>>58656458
*Virtual Monopoly*
ARM still owns the license, Qualcomm and others pay to use it.
Honestly Monopolies aren't bad when they actually continue to improve their products and lower prices. The problem is that people tend to be greedy and abuse the power afforded.

Their "monopoly" is limited to (1) Clapistan, and (2) patents for LTE modems. The SoC business is still reasonably competitive between Samsung, Huawei, and Qualcuck. (MediaTek will probably blow goats for eternity)

it's not a monopoly like with x86, anyone can use ARM, it's just that qualcomm isn't as retarded as the other companies, it's healthy competition

>not actually ambitious enough to compete with Apple and Intel

anyone involved is a loser lmao

How exactly are they a monopoly?

>>58656458
Samsung's Exynos CPU's are actually pretty good against Qualcomm's.

Thankfully they'll always be in a pseudo competition with Apple's chips, so performance won't stagnate as much as if they were producing chips for Apple as well.

>>58656458
There's Mediatek, but they don't really do much actual design. They basically just take off-the-shelf ARM core designs, and stick like ten of them in a die.

MediaKek
Samsung oxynos
HiSilicon
Intel Atom
And I know there are few more
Plenty of competition

Not a monopoly at all. I mean you could say that ARM has a monopoly, but not Qualcomm