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Apple is not going to buy us says ARM
IT SEEMS we offended Apple fanbois when we said that Apple would not be buying ARM any time soon. It also appears that ARM has agreed with us.
ARM Holdings' chief executive Warren East reminds everyone to look at the economics and dismisses any thoughts that Apple would bother.
He said that with ARM's market capitalisation at more than £3 billion, why should Jobs' Mob write a cheque to own it when Apple and others can license the designs at a fraction of that?
East said that exciting though it was to have the share price pushed up by these rumours, common sense tells him that ARM's standard business model is an excellent way for technology companies to gain access to its technology.
He told the Guardian that nobody has to buy the company to get what it wants from it.
The logic is that ARM's microchips can be found in most of the world's mobile phones, including Apple's Iphone. As consumer demand for smartphones grows and as the devices get smarter, they will need more of ARM's designs.
Anyway, Apple now owns its own chip design shop, PA Semi. µ
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If Apple were to buy ARM they could control the portable device market to an extent that would probably be deemed an illegal monopoly. Perhaps they have plans to license the iPhone OS
Ok, so it's very unlikely that Apple would buy ARM. But it's still very good news that ARM themselves seem disinterested in the idea.
Given their track-record for 'Apple IP is only for Apple products' I can imagine Apple owning ARM would be amazingly bad for just about everybody...
...either crippling royalty demands or an out and out refusal to share at any price would be the order of the day.
When Du Bai Bought AMD Fabs, pointed out lack of stength in such expensive option. However, new company does get own personel in & trained, often is very complex process, from front counter to engineering, labor & shipping. New accounts flourish.
Thats often PUBLIC buying, as in Glo.Flo. However, theres second type that arises in some cases, SECRET BUYING. This is due to nature of Planning of Beast. Often such plans are decades in taking, due to actual control of product by government.
What investor group wants today, might be 20 or more years out, till public can recieve Retail. Times Change & people come & go.
Needs of todday are far broader than investors from 30 years ago could understand. New Process, New Markets, More favorable schemes.
Secret Buying is where this Pays off. instead of training welps on aged equipment, dumbfounded engineers are technicians & horrid transportation links to dried markets, Simply walking in to City Desk & ordering units, while taking capital to invest where investment pays off best, years in process of learning, then Fab 1, Day 1, Unit 1. SALES.
So ARM may make Chippers, as city desks compete, yet whom will get theBALL. ARM cortex A9 Engineered or AMD & whom will get Slacish Labor, AMD or ARM. Mixed Bag, yet result depends on companies strength, market & knowledge. Needs & abilities.
For instance Gates Rubber coats Wire with insuate. Yet can buy wire, sell uninsulated, where loss of power is tremendous & sell huge amounts of coal to fire system to same level.
CPU where silicon on copper sheet, sometimes steel or aluminum. Crapper result is called Pentium. RED'R may have experienced some glitching during Gates era. Too much waste & losss of Customer base for such imagined tradition from theSIRGATES.
Now with my patented Silicon on insulate, invented in 1961, far better improvements in circuits can be made, about 100X more powerful then redacting software, over & over.
So mess is & mess brings on smarter teams, whom Public embraces. Jobs is greedy voyuer & narcicist, yet NOT Stupid. If could crimp Intel, Kick buggers in nags & walk off with FAB. Don't those appleites wish.
Rough ,tough, Life. Other events of time play out today in other fields. Can save internal power grid from expousure. bye,bye hinkee' welcome to new 1930s' torture, MK Ultra VII.
Far Superior to prototype MK Ultra II.
Yet see my point just getting to starting gates isn't easy. getting right start at gun is hard, wWINNING race is much more complex. Winn Chester is not Fredricksburg, just looks that way on Naivee map readers brain.
So on with Show.
drashek
You guys really need to learn to read spin and carefully phrases replies... That wasn't a denial. That was a question.
The answer to that question would be "To screw the world plus dog who depend on the ARM design".
Apple has bought Intrinsity, and PA Semi, and they are working on ARM chips.
The A4 is believed to be the work of Intrinsity, AKA Hummingbird, built by Samsung.
Apple is supposedly in talks with AMD as well.
(LL didn't even thank me for the tip)
Now you have some serious chip designers from PAS and Intrinsity working for Steve, and possibly a fab in the way of AMD's Globalfoundries.
Seems to me ARM would fit right in with whatever Apple is planning for the future.
They've had lots of trouble with CPU and GPU suppliers over the years, this would put an end to their woes for sure.
But, I may be wrong, although not as wrong as Nick is most of the time.