“Warren East, chief executive, said the inexorable rise of smartphones, such as the iPhone, BlackBerries and phones running Google’s Android operating system, were the main drivers behind the company’s success,” Neate reports. “ARM is also benefiting from the increasing adoption of mobile phone technology in other electronic devices, notably Apple’s new iPad personal computer. Mr East said he was ‘very excited’ about the iPad, which is due to launch in the UK at the end of May, because it may revoluitonsie the whole personal computing market.”
“‘The iPhone acted as a great stimulus to encourage competitors to develop products to beat the iPhone,’ he said. ‘The iPad looks like it has set the competitive bar again, and will stimulate people to do a lot of other creative things.’ Mr East dismissed rumours that Apple may be planning a £3bn takeover of the company,” Neate reports.
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How or where do you register
Gizmodo took Apple on and in it’s zeal to penetrate Apple secrecy and expose it’s new products before the company itself, they published a challenging offer of cash for any Apple IP, secret info, or prototypes. They went even brazenly further in their initiation and instigation of Apple theft/piracy ( which was directed at Apple employees particularly) by publishing a “no questions asked” disclaimer.
There are definitely grounds for an investigation.
Stay tuned…
Apple taking over ARM would never pass EU anti-trust muster.
Sorry, above posted in error to this topic…
I like it ‘breeze’..!
Let’s hope Giz’ goes down big time…
Crap… How cheap are these chips if you can ship 1.3 billion chips for $143 million and still make a profit. That means the average ARM chip costs $0.11 or less wholesale and still has profit in there.
@Escaport
They didn’t make all the chips, they earned a royalty for licensing the chip design.
@ Orlando Candelaria
Click on the blue word, “registered.”
It’s a hyperlink.
I would think that the worry is WHO would purchase them. There are a lot of companies (including Intel, Nvidia, etc) that would like to slow Apple down, or at least make some money from their success.