[TriEmbed] you read it here first: ARM being bought by Japanese Bank

[Mike Lisanke]

Appears SoftBank is very connected to China.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> I didn't mean to hit "send" last night. My pre-spellchecked, truncated
> text was just meant to wonder if Microsoft would be cannibalizing their
> cushy Intel relationships by getting too close to ARM Holdings (the biz)
> with a hypothetical acquisition. ARM's licensees have been eating Intel's
> lunch for years and I'm sure Intel would like nothing better than a repeat
> of what they did to Alpha (an extremely high quality RISC architecture and
> set of killer implementations Intel bought from DEC and promptly buried
> under a rock in the bushes in Santa Clara).
>
> Thanks to Scott for making it clear there is no "bank" in SoftBank. :-)
> The article I hadn't yet found that properly covers this story is from yesterday's
> Bloomberg News
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/softbank-to-buy-britain-s-arm-for-32-billion-in-record-deal>.
> And a Bloomberg headline today reports the announcement drove SoftBank's
> stock down over 10%. SoftBank is the outfit behind the scenes when Sprint
> unsuccessfully tried to buy T Mobile. The Japanese honcho of SoftBank
> responded by declaring Sprint would be OK without the merger and part of
> the market's judgment of this latest acquisition plan is to do with the
> delta between what SoftBank asserts and that pesky factor called reality.
>
> Two other interesting points I found this morning are that SoftBank's head
> honcho promised Teresa May (new UK PM) he would double the head count at
> ARM in the UK, and that ARM is the 800 pound gorilla of the UK IT industry,
> accounting for a third of total capitalization. In other words, the UK's
> total IT industry equates to Apple's cash on hand. This is a sad result for
> the country that can honestly lay claim to an important chunk of the
> earliest computing IP.
>
> Coincidentally I spent a half a day in Manchester admiring "Baby", the
> first stored program computer. Actually, the museum has a replica built
> from one of the designer's notebooks. So this
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine>
> is a late 1990's take on a 1947 vacuum tube computer that had a 1024 bit
> electrostatic memory inside what looked like an oscilloscope CRT. This was
> Manchester University's experimental system, with a practical follow-on in
> the form of the Manchester Mark I coming the following year. That was
> commercially produced by Ferranti and beat Univac I to customer delivery by
> almost two years. I'll finish by sharing a picture of a poster pinned
> behind the Baby replica at the museum.
>
>
>
> -Pete
>
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