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UK Chip Designer ARM to Be Acquired by Japan's Softbank for $31.4B
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I don't think it was that expensive.
With the current economic situation in the UK they were strong ARMed into doing it...
Many rumours around . Expamle, not going to plagiarise
http://wccftech.com/apple-acquiring-arm/
My personal opinion would be around Apple moved from its desktops and notebooks to ARM processors
Softbank better be careful and not try to increase prices on Apple or interfere with their product developments. I am sure Apple will gladly infuse Intel with cash and engineering to get x86 ready for the iPhone and iPad. In fact, before Apple chose ARM, they were willing to help Intel improve their processors for mobile. So they do have both the talent and engineering resources to do it, especially in 2016. Also, once Apple goes, the rest of the industry, including follow fashion Samsung. You end up with a 32 billion dollar waste of money.
Softbank, use this to improve your relationship, not squeeze partners for more bucks.
Softbank, use this to improve your relationship, not squeeze partners for more bucks.
Nope. Apple is a US corporation and therefore any acquisition of this magnitude would be subject to both US and EU monopolies scrutiny.
Apple would destroy Pixelmator through neglect like pretty much every application it hoovered up the past few years.
It's the government you should be blaming, not Brexit.
Everyone knew the pound was going to drop, the government should have been prepared to block deals like this.
Are you sure? The house I’m living in was designed from the ground up by my architect. He did not ift a single brick, solder one gas pipe or crimp a single terminal.
Did he make the house from scratch?
You're right, they wouldn't. Out of all the products ARM designs, Apple is only interested in the ISA. Apple doesn't need or care about ARM microarchitectures (like A53/57) nor do they care about ARM GPUs. Apple would be getting a lot of stuff they don't need.
Imagination is another company people say Apple should acquire, but I bet Apple starts making their own custom GPUs as well (licensing IP from Imagination, for example). So again, no need to when you have your own in-house processor design team (who happens to be kicking a$$ to boot).
Only Apple has Apple chips to put in their products and sell, so they are technically produced by Apple.
Actually, this one was apparently turned around in 2 weeks:
https://twitter.com/ArashMassoudi/status/754977514896982016
...and, yeah, the "headline" drop in Sterling was exaggerated somewhat by comparing spike-with-trough (gotta love the media), but its still down about 10% from a few months ago, which is a big consideration on a deal this size.
The physical side is just as important.
You know that the vast majority of the things that you see in Star Trek are theoretically possible? That’s how far design gets you.
Notice that we’ve not yet got a space craft that travels at warp 9? That’s how far production element gets you.
Apple do NOT produce those chips from scratch.
Thanks, page3
Yes, the A in ARM originally stood for Acorn - a British computer company in the 1980s which created the BBC Micro family of computers. The first commercial range of ARM based hardware was the Archimedes range of computers that Acorn released almost 30 years ago. I have one.
Apple did invest in ARM - and they and Acorn formed an alliance here in the UK to work in the education sector, a move that was referred to as “Fruit and Nut” by some of the wags in the computer press. When Acorn folded, parts went to Pace, and their hardware became buried into set top boxes. ARM by then had been spun out to the company we know now, and Apple was putting their processors in the Newton family of PDAs.
So, not much of Acorn left now. Its spirit lives on in part in the ARM based Raspberry Pi - and there are still versions of Acorn’s RISC OS around that will run on it, should you want the retro feel
I've still got a BBC B and an Acorn A3010 (I don't think the A3010 was officially part the "Archimedes" branding when it was released, just Acorn as it was a budget home model). Sadly neither work anymore but I can't stand to get rid of them. One of the guys I shared a house with while I was at university had a RiscPC 600 and I was so jealous at the time!
I have been very very tempted to get a Raspberry Pi just to relive those wonderful RISC OS days....
There's no monopoly/antitrust angle. There's no "national security" angle. "National interest" is slippery: they're promising continued investment which is a Good Thing (if you trust it). So, the Government is pretty much powerless to stop it.
What a crock. I suppose that Nvidia doesn't design graphics cards and they just tell TSMC the specs and let them figure it out?
Apple does the design, which is 95% of the work (and the hardest part).
The french, and other countries in europe have stopped multiple takeovers from happening in the past
Technical they are produced by Samsung and TSMC for Apple. Though we are talking about the same thing .
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Did you know baboons can post on the "interwebs" also.
Seriously mate, that is so insulting to anyone that does not recieve a tertiary education !!! Plenty of baboons spend years at university.
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They are manufactured by TSMC and Samsung in silicon foundries. There is a difference.
Goshalmighty! I've seen people suggest the SEC, FTC, or FCC would come down on an Apple acquisition.
FYI: in the USA, it's the DOJ Anti-Trust Division that prevents monopolistic mergers and acquisitions.
How d'you like them acronyms?
I liked your comment not because you were incorrect but that you took the unusual step in this forum of simply acknowledging that and moving on.
There are no "prices". Apple pays license fees, which are set by contract. Typically a company such as Apple would write clauses into any contract that protects them in case of acquisition. Since these are just licenses, not purchase of a manufactured product, it's quite likely that Apple pre-negotiated rights for as long as they might possibly need them.