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I'm sure if Apple wants some cool IP to themselves, ARM will sell them the IP separately and exclusively. No need to buy the whole company to get an edge.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
What in the hell are you talking about?]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
I think he is trying to say that ARM can create something exclusive for apple and allocate resources as such while still making tons of money with going to the extreme of selling itself to Apple.
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Everyone loves posts typed completly in capitals.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/you're telling me Android, ChromeOS, WebOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry, etc are all going to just get forced into at least a year long process to move to a generally slower architecture?
I'd like to see something like the FTC involved before anyone, especially Apple, take over ARM]]>Apr 22nd 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Move to MIPS? LOL .. ok fine .. but what if Apple buys MIPS too? MIPS would probably only cost a few million bucks.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
The CEO is such a killjoy! There was such an interesting "discussion" going on here on engadget and flame wars and all... and he pissed on the parade... KILLJOY!!!]]>Apr 23rd 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/The Market Cap of ARM Holdings is only 2 billion. Apple can buy it on last quarters profits alone...and still have a billion left over. The question is will all the other phone makers get locked out of using ARM chips if Apple buys them. I don't see the deal getting through government regulation.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
The rumoured price was 8 billion. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Actually if Apple somehow managed to pull this off, it would be the end of Apple. It would become Apple vs the World of technology companies. A lot of countries would come together to defeat their common enemy, an evil dictator... er... I meant a lot of companies would come together to defeat their common rival, Steve Jobs.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
It's when a big company, with a big market share in an area makes that market share increase that these things get put under a microscope, not when a big company finds a way to expand (even largely) into a new field. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Ah... wise business decision...

You're aware Google does websites and basically...little text ads right?]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
where have you been living

google does much more than that and even if it did do that they have enough money to purchase ARM

are you aware of the android operating system?]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
im just making an assumption but maybe this guy is one of those iphone users that is not aware of anything besides iphone.

Im not trying to offend any iphone users but out of all the people that bought the iphone a good chunk of them are not aware of the alternatives that in the end are better

especially if you care if your phone has ARM components then you probably are a power user and iphone is not a phone for power users (not stock atleast)]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
That being said, I don't see it happening. This is the sort of thing Apple bought PA Semi for. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/this would make more sense for google to buy as they can turn their servers farms into eco green server farms while still licensing ip to the community...]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
lol, you're so punny]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/I thought that was pretty clever of him.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
I think anti-competitiveness laws would kick in if Apple tried to cock-block other phone makers from using ARM processors, but I was still a bit worried. Maybe they would use it to leverage their lawsuit against HTC even further. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
1. Apple was one of the companies that started ARM, and they owned a big chunk of it until the late 90s when they stopped developing the Newton.

2. Neither Apple nor ARM have any sort of monopoly, so there's no anti-trust issues that come into play.

3. Apple could theoretically stop licensing ARM designs to other companies, but that would just destroy the value of the company. Why would they do that? The numbers wouldn't add up.

What Apple could do, however, is control the direction of ARM development to favour Apple's needs, and they could also get the first crack at ARM designs, royalty free.

Those benefits *might* be worth the purchase price for ARM. Either way, Apple is certainly not buying some or all of ARM to kill it.
]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Apple and VLSI infused cash into ARM to get development on the ARM6 for their products. Apple then sold all the stock after ARM did what they wanted and was able to function on their own.

By your stupid logic, then many of these corporations belong to each other. Look MS bought out Apple stock to help them out when they were struggling. Apple owes MS big time right? What about MS? They should just merge with Intel and shut off macs then right? After all, there is AMD and other chip processors.

And what difference does it make if Apple was one of the major initial investors of ARM. Look at it this way. ARM was doing their low power consuming processors from the get go. Apple saw what they liked and gave them some cash to work on the ARM6 and then sold off its stock later on.

So tell me, how does the sequence of events above rationalize this acquisition and make it ok?. Who cares if Apple helped them financially early on. That doesnt take away from the fact that this is wrong.

I think youre just an Apple fanboy that wants this to happen. You sir, take fanboydom to the highest limits. You are willing to be unprincipled just to see your brand succeed. This is anti competitive. Plain and simple.

And this is from a guy who liked Apple from the beginning. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/How's my style? Call 1-800-BE-STYLE.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Can you type something a bit more coherent. And if they do suck, I dont care. That doesnt take away from what I said bc you never retorted to any of it.

Dont like it, then too bad. Fanboy. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Does MS still have stock in APPL?]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Not anymore.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Still, that doesnt change the fanboy reasoning that this is a good thing just because Apple was an initial investor. A lot of companies do this.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
So it's good if you like Apple, not so good if you don't like Apple.

There's no need to be so hysterical about it, bub.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
I can picture you doing some really awesome things in the future and soaring to be for mobiles what Intel is for desktops. Please don't sell yourself and fuck this up for consumers.

K. Thx. Bye]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/Apr 22nd 2010 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Wow.So according to you, this company with a current MCap of 2 Billion is the lynchpin to the whole future of mobile computing.

*slow applause
]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Protip: Your JesusPhone has tech done by ARM. Your JesusPad has tech developed by ARM (Apple gives the requirements), virtually every smartphone out there runs on ARM.]]>Apr 22nd 2010 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Considering about 98 percent of mobile phones have an ARM processor, you could say ARM has a rather large role in the future of mobile computing. ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
Yes. Every smart phone has an ARM chip in it. ARM holds all the patents and licenses them out to chip makers like TI, Nvidia, Qualcomm who create CPUs like the Cortex, Tegra, Snapdragon. If Apple bought ARM, do you think they would allow any new ARM chips to their direct competitors in the cellphone marketplace? ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/22/arm-ceo-dampens-talk-of-apple-acquisition-says-nobody-has-to-b/
"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."

or

"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."

-- Donald Rumsfeld

http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/quotethis/a/rumsfeldquotes.htm]]>Apr 22nd 2010 6:56PM