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

[laminutederire]

50 minutes ago, Deli said:

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

Good thing in Japan, it is the other kind of Chinese, you know, Japanese

[mikat]

8 hours ago, FirstArmada said:

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

 

 

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

if apple bought arm
no more arm in non apple phones

everyone has to use intel/amd processors then :P

rip power efficiency
rip smartphone prices

[Tomsen]

Apple wont buy out ARM, that is not their business.

Intel wont buy out ARM, as that would lead to big companies fleeting towards a new standard (Mips, or whatever, with a similar business strategy as ARM).

Softbanks seems to be a solid bet. Seems like they will continue on ARMs business strategies, with some internal development/deployment.

[FirstArmada]

3 hours ago, Tomsen said:

Apple wont buy out ARM, that is not their business.

Intel wont buy out ARM, as that would lead to big companies fleeting towards a new standard (Mips, or whatever, with a similar business strategy as ARM).

Softbanks seems to be a solid bet. Seems like they will continue on ARMs business strategies, with some internal development/deployment.

Anyone even use Mips anymore? the only non obsolete architects using RISC seem to be PowerPC, Sparch & Power Architecture 

[Tomsen]

10 minutes ago, FirstArmada said:

Anyone even use Mips anymore? the only non obsolete architects using RISC seem to be PowerPC, Sparch & Power Architecture 

Plenty, perhaps more so than Sparc.

Used alot in embedded network equipment.

[NumLock21]

There is that new architectire where all cpus can share the same language.

[Deletist_Jerk]

If anyone had ARM stocks, congrats! Sorry if you still have Apple stocks. 

[WereCat]

Some people would give their arm and leg to get to all these money.. So far it was only ARM.

(Sorry I had to).