Apple Inc. is going to buy ARM Holdings again?
In April 2008, Apple Inc. bought PA Semi - see: "Apple buys PA Semi" . Although PA Semi had previously developed the PowerPC CPU architecture, Apple’s new division, formed from PA Semi engineers, was developing a new generation of ARM architecture processors — see: Apple’s Secret Deal, Samsung and Imagination, and Apple's Next-Generation Head of Apple Chip ... "
In April 2010, it became known that Apple Inc. absorbed the company Intrinsity, engaged in the design of ARM-architecture processors - see: "Absorption of Intrinsity" .
And at the same time, according to British media resources, rumors spread that Apple Inc. is considering the possibility of purchasing ARM Holdings - see: “Apple is considering the possibility of purchasing ARM Holdings” .
Practically no one believed it. And even the leadership of ARM was forced to make a public statement, where the executive director of ARM, Warren East, said: “Nobody buys our company” - see: “ARM denies rumors about negotiations on the sale of Apple” .
But in June 2010, the wave of reports that Apple Inc. was again swept over the largest American media resources. supposedly going to acquire a processor developer ARM Holdings. What, once again, immediately affected the stock value of the campaign of ARM Holdings - see: “ Will Apple buy ARM Holdings?” (Source: Barrons.com , Forbes.com ) !?
ARM Holdings is an association of enterprises engaged in the design and licensing of ARM architecture of mobile processors used in virtually every smartphone, PDA, and other mobile devices.
Today, ARM Holdings has sold licenses for manufacturing processors with an ARM architecture to dozens of manufacturers. And this architecture produces hundreds of millions (according to some information even about a billion) processors per year, the world's largest semiconductor companies, such as: Qualcomm, Broadcom, Freescale, Samsung, TI, Marvell, VIA, Nvidia.
It is unlikely that Apple wants to kill all the competitors in products that use ARM processors - because most likely, various antitrust authorities will not allow this.
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But if you study the history of the company ARM, it turns out Apple - is one of the founders of ARM Ltd. - see: "Apple can devour ARM" :
“Apple was one of the co-founders of ARM. In 1990, she and the British PC maker Acorn and the chip maker VLSI organized a company to develop mobile processors for the PDA Newton Message Pad. After Newton was discontinued in the late 90s, Apple, then on the verge of survival, sold its shares to ARM in order to get more working capital. ”
It is quite possible that today Apple has grown rich and is trying to simply return the stake in ARM that it owned, which it already owned as the founder and the main investor of this company (perhaps Apple has certain agreements for this - about the exclusive purchase of ARM shares).
And the need for this apparently follows from the desire to influence the further development of the architecture of ARM processors as actively as possible, and to be able to fundamentally change the core of ARM processors without paying attention to the existing licensing restrictions!
UP: Besides, it's worth remembering that Apple Inc. invested $ 5 million in a 3.6% stake in Imagination Technologies - see: “Intel, following Apple, buys a piece of“ imagination ” . So that experience in investment cooperation and the acquisition of shares in technology companies from Apple Inc. has already:)
What do you think of it?
In April 2010, it became known that Apple Inc. absorbed the company Intrinsity, engaged in the design of ARM-architecture processors - see: "Absorption of Intrinsity" .
And at the same time, according to British media resources, rumors spread that Apple Inc. is considering the possibility of purchasing ARM Holdings - see: “Apple is considering the possibility of purchasing ARM Holdings” .
Practically no one believed it. And even the leadership of ARM was forced to make a public statement, where the executive director of ARM, Warren East, said: “Nobody buys our company” - see: “ARM denies rumors about negotiations on the sale of Apple” .
But in June 2010, the wave of reports that Apple Inc. was again swept over the largest American media resources. supposedly going to acquire a processor developer ARM Holdings. What, once again, immediately affected the stock value of the campaign of ARM Holdings - see: “ Will Apple buy ARM Holdings?” (Source: Barrons.com , Forbes.com ) !?
ARM Holdings is an association of enterprises engaged in the design and licensing of ARM architecture of mobile processors used in virtually every smartphone, PDA, and other mobile devices.
Today, ARM Holdings has sold licenses for manufacturing processors with an ARM architecture to dozens of manufacturers. And this architecture produces hundreds of millions (according to some information even about a billion) processors per year, the world's largest semiconductor companies, such as: Qualcomm, Broadcom, Freescale, Samsung, TI, Marvell, VIA, Nvidia.
It is unlikely that Apple wants to kill all the competitors in products that use ARM processors - because most likely, various antitrust authorities will not allow this.
')
But if you study the history of the company ARM, it turns out Apple - is one of the founders of ARM Ltd. - see: "Apple can devour ARM" :
“Apple was one of the co-founders of ARM. In 1990, she and the British PC maker Acorn and the chip maker VLSI organized a company to develop mobile processors for the PDA Newton Message Pad. After Newton was discontinued in the late 90s, Apple, then on the verge of survival, sold its shares to ARM in order to get more working capital. ”
It is quite possible that today Apple has grown rich and is trying to simply return the stake in ARM that it owned, which it already owned as the founder and the main investor of this company (perhaps Apple has certain agreements for this - about the exclusive purchase of ARM shares).
And the need for this apparently follows from the desire to influence the further development of the architecture of ARM processors as actively as possible, and to be able to fundamentally change the core of ARM processors without paying attention to the existing licensing restrictions!
UP: Besides, it's worth remembering that Apple Inc. invested $ 5 million in a 3.6% stake in Imagination Technologies - see: “Intel, following Apple, buys a piece of“ imagination ” . So that experience in investment cooperation and the acquisition of shares in technology companies from Apple Inc. has already:)
What do you think of it?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/96257/
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