According to Slashdot, The London Evening Standard is claiming what has been floating around for 24 hours as rumor: namely, that Apple has offered to buy ARM for $8 billion. That would be some *big* news. This would be a huge, and I think very smart, bet for Apple to make. And, at the same time, it would be bad in general as Apple would then be in a position to possibly deny other manufacturers access to ARM chips (think Google tablet.) Of course other manufacturers could just move to Intel Atom, so it doesn't fully lock other people out (and it would certainly be good for Intel.)
Interesting times. Bold move by Apple if true.
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Interesting times. Bold move by Apple if true.
- jim 4-22-2010 6:39 pm