SoftBank confirms $32B acquisition of chipmaker ARM to target Internet of Things

Hopefully they remain true to their word about keeping ARM independent. Their licensing strategy has worked pretty well so far.

I find it odd when it is the _acquiring_ company that you have never heard of.

Edit: Apparently big in Japan.

+1 thanks for the link! I feel much better about the acquisition now.

Hey, I've even seen one of those!

They basically merged with (took a controlling interest in?) Sprint a few years ago. That's when I found out who they were.

They've been around since the days that programs were distributed on floppies as shareware.

other than an ownership change, this should not bring much of change to the market or ARM dependant companies,shouldnt it? .

If it was any other company like Intel or Samsung, things would have been different. I see that even Intel is developing chips based on ARM http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arm-processors-...