Qualcomm Wants To Buy a Stake in Arm Alongside Its Rivals (arstechnica.com) 17
The US chipmaker Qualcomm wants to buy a stake in Arm alongside its rivals and create a consortium that would maintain the UK chip designer's neutrality in the highly competitive semiconductor market. From a report: Japanese conglomerate SoftBank plans to list Arm on the New York Stock Exchange after Nvidia's $66 billion purchase collapsed earlier this year. However, the IPO has sparked concern over the future ownership of the company, given its crucial role in the global technology sector. "We're an interested party in investing," Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm's chief executive, told the Financial Times. "It's a very important asset and it's an asset which is going to be essential to the development of our industry." He added that Qualcomm, one of Arm's biggest customers, could join forces with other chipmakers to buy Arm outright if the consortium making the purchase was "big enough." Such a move could settle concerns over the corporate control of Arm after the upcoming IPO. "You'd need to have many companies participating so they have a net effect that Arm is independent," he said.
Sounds good on paper, but... (Score:2)
I would be worried that any consortium of chip makers might find it to their advantage to make sure Arm doesn't get TOO good.
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except ARM doesn't manufacture and market chips. ARM is a supplier to those who do.
This is going back to the future. The original ARM was a joint venture between Acorn, Apple and VLSI. An Apple VP was the first CEO. Apple has a lifetime architecture & instruction set license.
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except ARM doesn't manufacture and market chips. ARM is a supplier to those who do.
This is going back to the future. The original ARM was a joint venture between Acorn, Apple and VLSI. An Apple VP was the first CEO. Apple has a lifetime architecture & instruction set license.
Exactly.
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I can help but think of.. (Score:2)
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While I agree that a consortium is one way to keep it "neutral", I can't help but think of the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles.
Nice Dune Reference; but including the Acronym would have helped jog people's memories; since it is pretty much always referred to only by its Acronym.
https://scifi.stackexchange.co... [stackexchange.com]
Also, it is considered proper to put Foreign Language phrases (even fake ones) in italics. . .
WOO WOO WOoo Woo wooo (Score:2)
I am the arm, and I sound like this.
Fire walk with me.
No new players (Score:2)
Almost guarantees that existing license holders will lean on ARM not to extend significant licenses to anyone else.
Not a good idea (Score:2)
Or shitbag nVidia will launch a hostile takeover as soon as they go public.
Conflict? (Score:2)
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No, it does not. Qualcomm has no stake in NXP.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You (and likely others) are understandably confused as they tried *29* times to get their mitts on NXP before finally giving up!
As for this, I am one of those who who know better than to trust Qualcomm's C-suite: this is a a company that is famous for not playing nice with others & I guarantee you there's a nasty ulterior motive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You (and likely others) are understandably confused as they tried *29* times to get their mitts on NXP before finally giving up!
As for this, I am one of those who who know better than to trust Qualcomm's C-suite: this is a a company that is famous for not playing nice with others & I guarantee you there's a nasty ulterior motive.
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