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[giga]

WHAT: https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/754850771842326528

FT confirms: https://next.ft.com/content/235b1af4-4c7f-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc

For those unaware what SoftBank is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank

And ARM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings

 

[Nobility]

Damn.

 

[Izuna]

Making use of that Strong Yen

 

[Wads]

How does this maker any sense at all? Why wouldn't another chipmaker do this?

 

[Lo-Volt]

?!?

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Thirty Two Billion????? Holy crap.

 

[giga]

How does this maker any sense at all? Why wouldn't another chipmaker do this?

That cheap GBP.

 

[trembli0s]

Wow, that is stunning.

 

[ISOM]

Sooo, what are they going to do with this?

 

[Rur0ni]

Insane purchase.

 

[MHWilliams]

Softbank owns Sprint and ARM.

Sprint-exclusive monster phone confirmed. (Not really.)

 

[Yamauchi]

That's crazy but kind of an awesome investment, too.

 

[leroidys]

Had no idea they were even for sale (assuming it wasn't a hostile takeover). Pretty crazy news.

 

[Reversed]

Bow to our fluffy overlord.

 

[rrs]

well, that came out of nowhere

 

[The Llama]

Wonder if this would have happened if the Brexit vote had failed...

 

[GSR]

Techmeme EiC currently screaming into five phones simultaneously

 

[McHuj]

Sooo, what are they going to do with this?

Make money

 

[cheezcake]

Well that came out of fucking nowhere

 

[zeemumu]

Must've cost them an ARM and a leg

Spoiler

Please clap

 

[SRG01]

What the hell?

How does this affect ARM operations moving forward?

Must've cost them an ARM and a leg

LOL

 

[Syriel]

WHAT: https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/754850771842326528

For those unaware what SoftBank is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank

And ARM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings

Damn. That's one way to ensure you get chips with exactly the features you want.

Softbank owns Sprint and ARM.

Sprint-exclusive monster phone confirmed. (Not really.)

Sprint is just dead weight as far as Softbank is concerned. ARM will actually make it money.

 

[Deleted member 284]

I wonder if this will affect AMDs stock price

 

[Nesotenso]

this is a very strange pairing. I thought if anybody were to buy them, it would be another chip maker.

 

[shira]

Japan flexing dat muscle

 

[dramatis]

this is a very strange pairing. I thought if anybody were to buy them, it would be another chip maker.

You should see the "Chinese mining company bought a gamedev" deal from last week

 

[Tenebrous]

Must've cost them an ARM and a leg

Spoiler

Please clap

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Softbank own phones in general now.

 

[jstripes]

Wow. So SoftBank just paid $23 billion to be the new Intel.

 

[exmachina64]

Holy shit.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Wow...

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Gotta take advantage of those currency value fluctuations!

Apparently this is a huge deal but I don't know anything about computer hardware and stuff lol.

 

[Krejlooc]

holy shit

 

[jstripes]

Gotta take advantage of those currency value fluctuations!

Apparently this is a huge deal but I don't know anything about computer hardware and stuff lol.

Desktops and laptops are almost completely based on Intel's x86 CPUs. (And some AMD x86 CPUs.)

Mobile phones and tablets are are almost completely based on ARM-licensed chipsets.

Think of which is growing, and which is shrinking.

 

[Sectorseven]

They didn't want the cell processor?

Where's their national pride?

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Desktops and laptops are almost completely based on Intel's x86 CPUs. (And some AMD x86 CPUs.)

Mobile phones and tablets are are almost completely based on ARM-licensed chipsets.

Think of which is growing, and which is shrinking.

Oh wow, that's intense. Yeah I understand now. Thanks.

 

[JonathanNemo]

They didn't want the cell processor?

Where's their national pride?

Funny you say that. The successor to Japan's K supercomputer is going to run on ARM chips built by Fujitsu.

Japan seems to believe in ARM.

 

[numble]

Damn. That's one way to ensure you get chips with exactly the features you want.

Sprint is just dead weight as far as Softbank is concerned. ARM will actually make it money.

ARM doesn't really make that much money. It just licenses designs and the chip makers make more of the money. It's income for the last quarter was just $130 million. Sprint has 30x the revenue that ARM has.

 

[chadskin]

That's wild.

 

[numble]

Desktops and laptops are almost completely based on Intel's x86 CPUs. (And some AMD x86 CPUs.)

Mobile phones and tablets are are almost completely based on ARM-licensed chipsets.

Think of which is growing, and which is shrinking.

It's not really the same comparison because Intel and AMD actually make money off of selling chips, ARM does not. ARM sells a license to Apple, Qualcomm, random Chinese companies etc. and they build off of those baseline designs to make their own chips.

 

[LeleSocho]

Huge.

 

[DrFunk]

I....what

 

[nhlducks35]

Remember, ARM doesn't actually fabricate any chips, they only license it out to companies.

Companies like Qualcomm and Apple customize the chips and then TSMC/Samsung manufacture them

 

[Ashes]

Desktops and laptops are almost completely based on Intel's x86 CPUs. (And some AMD x86 CPUs.)

Mobile phones and tablets are are almost completely based on ARM-licensed chipsets.

Think of which is growing, and which is shrinking.

er.... actually...

 

[Vic]

wtf

 

[Usobuko]

That's crazy.

 

[exmachina64]

Desktops and laptops are almost completely based on Intel's x86 CPUs. (And some AMD x86 CPUs.)

Mobile phones and tablets are are almost completely based on ARM-licensed chipsets.

Think of which is growing, and which is shrinking.

Aren't all of these shrinking?

 

[GrantDaNasty]

Everytime I read ARM I read it as AIM initially. Got Iron Man on the brain it seems.

On-topic though: Big Deal, considering anything and everything mobile utilizes ARM chips.

 

[Somnid]

God damn. Where does Softbank get all this money? Like I know they're Japan's biggest carrier but there's got to be some secret side business I don't know about.

 

[andythinkpad]

How does this maker any sense at all? Why wouldn't another chipmaker do this?

If other chipmaker can do it, Intel wouldn't downsized so much of its workforce recently.