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Re: ARM about to be sold

From Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: ARM about to be sold
Date 2016-07-19 10:23 +0300
Organization TGI
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On 19.7.2016 г. 10:13, rickman wrote:
> On 7/18/2016 11:50 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:01:40 -0400, rickman wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/18/2016 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> ARM is about to be sold to a Japanese company:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806
>>>>
>>>> As a Brit, it saddens me to see a British success story sold into
>>>> foreign hands, but my real concern is about what the future might bring
>>>> several years down the road.
>>>
>>> I read they expect to double the UK workforce, so not all bad.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Questions currently going through my mind include whether ARM will
>>>> still be able to perform R&D at their current rate and whether ARM's
>>>> engineers will be outsourced in the future and replaced with lower
>>>> quality staff.
>>>
>>> I doubt it.  Would you pay billions for a working company and then mess
>>> it up?  Anyone who can raise billions is not stupid.
>>
>> History disagrees with you.  Sometimes these things work out splendidly,
>> sometimes they work horribly.  Usually the people who make the initial
>> deal make out like bandits ('cuz they're not stupid), but often the
>> companies involved go down the tubes, leaving stockholders holding an
>> empty bag.
>
> Your logic is very poor.  History says things can go bad, but that is no
> contradiction to what I said.
>

Your logic is not very good either though. Anybody who can make billions
is not stupid - true.
Not being stupid is by far not what it takes to do what ARM did so far
though. It takes some extra talent.

You don't know whether the guy with the billions has it.

I expect things will slowly fall into their places, ARM 32 will stay
in small MCU-s (it is just not fit for use in large ones as they use
it), ARM 64 may or may not survive, time will tell (I don't know enough
about it to make predictions).

Dimiter

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ARM about to be sold Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-07-18 12:15 +0000
  Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 11:01 -0400
    Re: ARM about to be sold Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-07-18 16:44 +0000
      Re: ARM about to be sold "tim..." <tims_new_home@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-18 17:53 +0100
        Re: ARM about to be sold "Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com> - 2016-07-19 12:06 +0100
    Re: ARM about to be sold Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com> - 2016-07-18 19:25 +0100
    Re: ARM about to be sold Nils M Holm <nmh@ananda.local> - 2016-07-18 19:10 +0000
      Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 17:58 -0400
    Re: ARM about to be sold Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2016-07-18 22:50 -0500
      Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 03:13 -0400
        Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-19 10:23 +0300
          Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 10:26 -0400
            Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-19 17:35 +0300
          Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 10:57 -0500
            Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 13:23 -0400
              Re: ARM about to be sold Evgeny Filatov <filatov.ev@mipt.ru> - 2016-07-26 20:39 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 13:49 -0400
                Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 20:51 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold Evgeny Filatov <filatov.ev@mipt.ru> - 2016-07-26 21:08 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 22:57 +0300
              Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 20:56 +0300
              Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 13:45 -0500
                Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-27 03:45 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-27 11:26 -0500
                Re: ARM about to be sold lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com - 2016-07-27 15:00 -0700
                Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-28 01:46 -0500
                Re: ARM about to be sold Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-07-28 17:39 +0000
                Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 18:13 -0400
    Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 10:49 -0500
  Re: ARM about to be sold Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 08:20 -0700

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