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Apple to Invest in British Chip Designer Arm on Initial Public Offering
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That's one strategy, but the other is to allow small shares across players in the industry also including Intel and Samsung, which is what they're doing. The advantage to this could be ARM doing more for what's in the best interest of the industry and being less focused on a priority of increasing shareholder value.
However there’s little stopping those companies demanding larger shares later on with all sort of excuses they can come up with, and ARM would slowly turn into yet one more battlefield between chip design giants and nobody else new can join the fray. Unless regulatory grip is iron tight, I don’t think whoever is the CEO would be able to put shareholder value as second priority after the IPO.
I believe that Apple held shares of ARM in the past, sold them as part of their rebuilding when Jobs returned?
The long history/relationship, along with the current Apple product line being pretty much entirely ARM based, makes this... a not surprising piece of news(?)/speculation(?)...
Now, if we see Apple get involved with the new RISK-V group... that would be more surprising, but as Jobs said, "We love to have options", so still not man bites dog surprising?
The long history/relationship, along with the current Apple product line being pretty much entirely ARM based, makes this... a not surprising piece of news(?)/speculation(?)...
Now, if we see Apple get involved with the new RISK-V group... that would be more surprising, but as Jobs said, "We love to have options", so still not man bites dog surprising?
ohh lord what I would give to own some of these shares. glad to hear Apple is investing in them given their storied history.
It would hardly be surprising to see either a cash investment or involvement in the group recently started by Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon ... Options are good? With ARM going public, it'll have "responsibilities" to shareholders .. that normally involves the constant churn and requirement to show constant growing profits.. that will likely lead to increased license fees.. that sooner or later could make Apple look seriously at .. options?
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It’s a public offering so there’s nothing stopping you. Even if the share price is too high for you, plenty of brokers offer fractional shares.
For the Newton, if memory serves.
oh, without sharing too much, I'm not in the best position to buy into the market right now (even with fractional shares, which I do buy via my investing app of choice), hence my comment…😅 hopefully that'll change in due time.
I do stay the [not financial advice] #1 HODLer of TSMC stock on this forum, those are some shares I bought a few years back at a lovely price and I will never let them go 🤪
3080's still blow the M2 out of the water in power consumption don't they?
I'm not aniti-Apple lol...its just that they say the M2 Max's gpu performance is on par with the 3080 but it's not, but the power consuption is much more of course. The M1 and M2 chip series is still insane tho...im deciding to get the M1 or M2 Max MBP...cant decide.
Acorn RISC was the GOAT
Anyone interested in the origin of ARM (Acorn RISC Machines) and the competition between Acorn and Sinclair that led to it I highly recommend watching Micromen, a brilliant BBC comedy drama about their rivalry.
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The article is clear:I think Apple would get the same regulatory problems as Nvidia if they tried getting all the shares...
...but going in with a solid minority, I'd like to see about 20-30%, or even 35% for negative control, just to protect ARM from another raid...
“Arm plans to welcome the big chipmakers as medium- to long-term shareholders, selling them stakes of a few percent each.”
I don't know. Wouldn't that be a very RISC-Y move?
That's what I'm thinking about.
It'll probably surge during the IPO and then fizzle shortly afterward, before climbing back up. That fizzle (if it happens) is when I'm tapping in. 😁
BeOS was awesome back in the day. I loved the ominously named office suite, BeWare.
Yeah, but I still hope they go for a good chunk, and not "just" 3-5%
Which much later became the iPad… 👍🏻
Smart buy. I reckon custom built gaming PCs will be using ARM in 10 years time, they'll stack the chips as high as a gaming PC case is wide.
Yeah I owned a handful of shares of ARM back in the day, thinking I was very smart to get in on the company that made chips for the iPhone... then Softbank bought them, my shares were liquidated and they were delisted from the markets, that was a big bummer, I was like "they can do that?!" Now they are doing an "IPO" again! 🙄 Aye!
Good to know. Looking forward to hearing more about this over the next few months
Touted as the next MacOS at one point, according to the pundits anyway.
