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"Oracle to possibly buy ARM" is a pretty strange summary of the article, which actually says (1) Ellison says that Oracle might buy some chip-making companies,
by gjm11 16y ago
"Oracle to possibly buy ARM" is a pretty strange summary of the article, which actually says (1) Ellison says that Oracle might buy some chip-making companies, (2) stock in ARM rose, apparently in response, but (3) one of the two sources cited by the article says that it's very unlikely that Ellison had ARM in mind and the other goes no further than that it's possible that he had.
- 1337p337 16y agoI certainly hope that it is just speculation. I've never seen a CPU that was as much a joy to code for. I've done some assembly for various architectures, and nothing at all compares to the elegant, powerful simplicity of the ARM. Based on Oracle's treatment of Sun, it would be a crying shame for ARM's design team to share a similar fate. No one needs a world where "movsne r0, r1" is going to violate some Oracle license agreement.
- wicknicks 16y agoYou're right. And the last thing we want right now is to see another company go down in patent flames.
- dmillar 16y agoAgreed, updated.
- borism 16y agoit just goes to show the stupidity of the market. ARM takeover was speculated for months. Now that someone with a lot of cash actually mentions that they want "chip companies" the market goes crazy and pushes up it's first choice even more. Nevermind that buying ARMH makes zero sense for ORCL. Though stranger M&As has happened... Edit: though judging by today's jump MIPS and AMD seem more of a choice