#licensing
2 articles
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·Supply Chain·★ MEMBER·11 min read
IP Cores and the Fabless Model — How Arm Rules Silicon Without Making a Single Chip
Why a company that only sells blueprints ends up at the center of the chip industry. License fees versus royalties, the shipment volume where buying beats building, the three grades of IP (soft, hard, architectural), and what RISC-V actually made free — and what it did not.
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·Generative Models·FREE·PAPER·11 min read
A Practical Map of Image Generation — SD, ControlNet, and Applying LoRA
A single map for anyone about to touch image generation for the first time: the four boxes of latent diffusion, where the prompt actually takes effect, locking down composition with ControlNet, fine-tuning with LoRA, and the licensing layers that quietly cause the most damage.