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| From | Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch.embedded |
| Subject | Re: ARM about to be sold |
| Date | 2016-07-26 10:57 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
> 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.
Just no. Making billions doesn't imply any sort of intelligence nor
talent at all.
> Not being stupid is by far not what it takes to do what ARM did so far
> though. It takes some extra talent.
>
But this too. Smart people do stupid things.
> 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),
I'm behind as well, but ARM32 can support quite a bit of RAM and FLASH.
I dunno - is a Coretex A8 on a Beaglebone a large or small? Seems large
to me. Maybe medium?
> ARM 64 may or may not survive, time will tell (I don't know enough
> about it to make predictions).
>
It may not.
> Dimiter
>
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Les Cargill
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Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 11:01 -0400
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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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