Softbank, the Japanese owners of Sprint, is buying ARM for $32 billion USD

[TopWargamer]

Source: http://www.recode.net/2016/7/17/12210564/softbank-arm-holdings-deal

 

[Just about] everything runs on an ARM chip nowadays, whether you know it or not. Your smartphone? Runs an ARM based chip (Intel based phones excluded). Internet-of-Things devices? Almost certainly runs some sort of ARM based chip. Who wouldn't want to have their hands on that type of potential profit? So it makes sense that Softbank is buying ARM for $32 billion USD. Do keep in mind that ARM only designs the chips, but does not actually produce them. They leave production up to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, etc.

 

The one thing that is unclear is if Softbank is just flat out buying ARM or if there will be a bidding process. If it's the latter, then there is a couple of potential bidders: Apple and Intel. Why Apple? Because Apple is a huge customer. Why Intel? Because Intel lost the mobile war and still wants their hands in the industry.

 

And to add some perspective to how big a deal this acquisition is, here's a graph of all chips containing an ARM based processor:

[Enderman]

Your signature tho.

[themaniac]

oh, well um i dont know what to say i guess lets hope arm gets even better, idk someone say something to save me from my wordlessness

[Energycore]

17 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Your signature tho.

I find it quite fabulous

[FirstArmada]

Would be interesting to see Intel purchase them, they would turn from Chancellor of the semi conductor world to emperor of the semi conductor world 

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I find it quite fabulous

˙ǝɹnʇɐubıs ɹnoʎ ɟo pɐǝʇsuı sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ ɹǝɥʇɐɹ pןnoʍ ı

[Energycore]

3 minutes ago, FirstArmada said:

Would be interesting to see Intel purchase them, they would turn from Chancellor of the semi conductor world to emperor of the semi conductor world 

Dat reference though

[Energycore]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

˙ǝɹnʇɐubıs ɹnoʎ ɟo pɐǝʇsuı sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ ɹǝɥʇɐɹ pןnoʍ ı

Never had a problem reading upside down personally

[FirstArmada]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Never had a problem reading upside domn personally

How does this upside domn reading stuff work

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, FirstArmada said:

How does this upside domn reading stuff work

Instead of commenting I will point to my location text

[FirstArmada]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Instead of commenting I will point to my location text

Gotcha, how is it? do you notice and significant boost in typing speed or a decrease in spelling mistakes?

[Enderman]

6 minutes ago, FirstArmada said:

How does this upside domn reading stuff work

Just flip your brain upside down and you can read it perfectly fine.

[themaniac]

8 minutes ago, Enderman said:

˙ǝɹnʇɐubıs ɹnoʎ ɟo pɐǝʇsuı sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ ɹǝɥʇɐɹ pןnoʍ ı

ǝɹnʇɐubıs is that sibnature? thats the only word i cant figure out

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, FirstArmada said:

Gotcha, how is it? do you notice and significant boost in typing speed or a decrease in spelling mistakes?

Not quite used to it yet, and i've been waking tons of mistakes as my fingers stroke the qwerty key instead of the dvorak one, but I really like the positioning of punctuation marks and that you mostly type along the center line. I'll post a report on it once i feel qwerty levels of comfortable with it.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, themaniac said:

ǝɹnʇɐubıs is that sibnature? thats the only word i cant figure out

It's a g upside down

[themaniac]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

It's a g upside down

no it makes since but why does it look like an upside dont p

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, themaniac said:

no it makes since but why does it look like an upside dont p

d is an upside down p

 

oʇɐʇod

[themaniac]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

d is an upside down p

 

oʇɐʇod

upside down q than but why does an upside down g look like a q

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, themaniac said:

upside down q than but why does an upside down g look like a q

No, if you read the text its flipped in the plane of the screen, aka rotated 180 degrees so that you read from right to left, not just upside down.

 

d is a p

and

g (and also q) is b

there is no upside down g character that has the curly bottom

[themaniac]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

No, if you read the text its flipped in the plane of the screen, aka rotated 180 degrees so that you read from right to left, not just upside down.

 

d is a p

and

g (and also q) is b

there is no upside down g character that has the curly bottom

ok my brain is not working then

[SurvivorNVL]

I hope this is a bidding game.  ARM in the hands of Intel would be terrifying.

[Deli]

1 hour ago, SurvivorNVL said:

I hope this is a bidding game.  ARM in the hands of Intel would be terrifying.

It would be even more terrifying if it falls to the hands of Chinese companies.

[SurvivorNVL]

6 minutes ago, Deli said:

It would be even more terrifying if it falls to the hands of Chinese companies.

Which is why we need Intel or Apple to gobble it up.  Preferably Intel.  

[FirstArmada]

17 minutes ago, SurvivorNVL said:

I hope this is a bidding game.  ARM in the hands of Intel would be terrifying.

In a bidding game most likely Apple or Samsung will pick it up or maybe a conglomerate 

[FirstArmada]

Looks like its official they agreed to purchasing it

 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-agrees-to-buy-arm-holdings-for-more-than-32-billion-1468808434

 

5 minutes ago, SurvivorNVL said:

Which is why we need Intel or Apple to gobble it up.  Preferably Intel.  

 

Hope not, they would have a monopoly on the semi conductor world