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The British should try to coax Softbank into doing an ARM IPO and work to build up a more significant native semiconductor ecosystem around the company. It migh
by adventured 5y ago
The British should try to coax Softbank into doing an ARM IPO and work to build up a more significant native semiconductor ecosystem around the company. It might be Britain's last chance at that, a company like ARM doesn't come around very often and you need something integral like that to build around as a core. The US should tandem with Britain on that (investment, political support, whatever is needed), given the close nature of the allied relationship (and since if the US can't own it the next best thing might be for Britain to continue to indefinitely).
- skinnymuch 5y agoSoftBank wants to do an IPO. They have no financial reason to hold on to all of ARM or even a majority of it in the near to medium future. Likewise, SoftBank def doesn’t want to put any money into ARM any more.
- simonh 5y agoARM has I think 2/3 of it's employees in the UK, mainly Cambridge, and they're expanding the campus there. The Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University is at the cutting edge globally with 18 PhD projects currently in flight. Guess where scads of ARM's top scientists are recruited from? ARM and the University are joined at the hip. That company's not going anywhere.