Will SoftBank (which owns Sprint, as well as sells iPhones in Japan) buy Arm Holdings (which licenses ARM processor architecture rights to Apple)? If so, what will that mean for the iOS ecosystem? Doesn't Apple (and at least one other large tech company) own a large chunk of Arm stock? Will Apple keep using arm64 CPUs?
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SoftBank & Arm Holdings?
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Here's a link to the news story http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/18/investing/softbank-arm-holdings-uk/index.html
As for the implications on the iPhone, I suspect very little. The world of mobile computing runs on ARM, and I don't see SoftBank mucking with a successful strategy.
As for the implications on the iPhone, I suspect very little. The world of mobile computing runs on ARM, and I don't see SoftBank mucking with a successful strategy.
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