Tick Tock 1 more nail.
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Question: How does being owned by a Japanese company impact ARM's prospects in China?
Instead of flushing Intels blood and treasure down the sh--ter could BK have done this?
ARM is the choice for all real IoT as the power efficiency kicks x86. That was and continues to be the choice for all phones ( read little computers with little batteries ).
IoT is even more power sensitive expecting the chip with full integrated radio and sensors to work on a battery for weeks to years. x86 has no place and will get it's asshanded worse than the Intel tablet and phone offerings were.
Now they get a big sugar daddy who will double down and double their staffing. Think Intel doing Itanium, Larabee and Tejas, but instead of spectacular failures likely ARM will now have three efforts they can fund from the sugar daddy.
1) Traditional architecture improvements for the smartphone only a billion of those sold
2) New push into a new category of ARMy for IoT
3) Renewed push into server and high end with another more well funded ARMy to assault the Xeon line. I'm sure Google, Azure, and AWS and FB would love nothing than a real viable ARMy far more power/computational efficient than overpriced Xeon with FPGA. Now ARMy will push hard and have Xlinx FBGA pushing the high end
It'll be a rough day in SC, LOL
Titanic just sprung another leak, LOL
Absolutely is another nail. ARM is poised to grab IoT market. Intel does not even have a competitive product. It's just like a start-up company in this arena.
Can OP clarify how that affects intel ? Last i heard, softbank doesnt directly compete with intel.
Damn you autocorrect.. make that Softbank