Apple to acquire ARM?
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Apple to acquire ARM?
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Re: Apple to acquire ARM?
#2Now this could be interesting.
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#3Apple seems to be everyone's emeny right now. I guess this adds Intel (with their new low power chips) to the list.
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#4They might as well buy AMD while they're at it (http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:AMD).
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#5> they could stop ARM's technology from ending up in everyone else's computers and gadgets
I really hope the acquisition won't get through, I can see Apple doing just that.
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#7They might as well buy AMD while they're at it ( http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:AMD ).
and they'd still have cash left over to pick up NVIDIA too.
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#8It would be unusual for Apple to spend that amount of money to essentially shut down a company. ARM makes all their money from licencing their designs, so this rumor is saying they will close down their income stream and turn them into an in-house chip design company.
It would take a while for this to have any effect anyway, because I suspect that most ARM manufactures have licence agreements that protect the upcoming Cortex-A9 designs (NVidia Tegra 2, TI OMAP4 etc). The Cortex-A9 should be good enough for a couple of years.
Longer term, there are good alternatives to ARM around anyway. Atom is making good progress, and Loongson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) could be an option too. (The idea that Loongson could come to dominate the market is so ironic that I think Shakespeare would rise from his grave and write a play about it)
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#9Re: Apple to acquire ARM?
#10They might as well buy AMD while they're at it ( http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:AMD ).
and they'd still have cash left over to pick up NVIDIA too.
It might make more sense to skip AMD and just get NVIDIA. It would put them in an interesting position with Intel and Tegra seems like some hot tech these days (at least based on the headlines I skim it does).