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SoftBank confirms $32B acquisition of chipmaker ARM to target Internet of Things
- kakarot 10y agoHopefully they remain true to their word about keeping ARM independent. Their licensing strategy has worked pretty well so far.
- Bromskloss 10y agoI find it odd when it is the _acquiring_ company that you have never heard of. Edit: Apparently big in Japan.
- runj__ 10y agoSoftBank do wonderful commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcvRLKO_pU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcvRLKO_pU
- Bromskloss 10y agoHey, I've even seen one of those!
- mark_l_watson 10y ago+1 thanks for the link! I feel much better about the acquisition now.
- Borogravia 10y agoAt first I was all "tee hee, Japanese commercials are so goofy" and then Tommy Lee Jones showed up. What.
- mdesq 10y agoThey basically merged with (took a controlling interest in?) Sprint a few years ago. That's when I found out who they were.
- chiph 10y agoThey've been around since the days that programs were distributed on floppies as shareware.
- hitr 10y agoother than an ownership change, this should not bring much of change to the market or ARM dependant companies,shouldnt it? . If it was any other company like Intel or Samsung, things would have been different. I see that even Intel is developing chips based on ARM http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arm-processors-why-how-who/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arm-processors-...