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SoftBank confirms $32B acquisition of chipmaker ARM to target Internet of Things

by gagan2020 on 7/18/16, 11:15 AM with 8 comments

• by kakarot on 7/18/16, 11:41 AM

  Hopefully they remain true to their word about keeping ARM independent. Their licensing strategy has worked pretty well so far.

• by Bromskloss on 7/18/16, 12:15 PM

  I find it odd when it is the _acquiring_ company that you have never heard of.

  Edit: Apparently big in Japan.

• by hitr on 7/18/16, 1:27 PM

  other than an ownership change, this should not bring much of change to the market or ARM dependant companies,shouldnt it? .

  If it was any other company like Intel or Samsung, things would have been different. I see that even Intel is developing chips based on ARM http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arm-processors-...