"High shelf filter" investment.

octatonic

LOL.

CabbageCat

Is a high shelf filter that plastic cover with an opaque strip in the middle on a girlie mag?

Flink_Poyd

Personally think it's a shame it's being sold. A truly great UK technology company off to be swallowed up by a Japanese company 

Strangefan

They were great back in the day, I didn't even k ow they were being  sold, great mobile processors of the day 

vasselmeyer

Strangefan said:

They were great back in the day, I didn't even k ow they were being  sold, great mobile processors of the day 

ARM is in EVERYTHING. You might know them for tablets, phones etc but they're in washing machines, routers, frideges etc. Their business model is great in that they design the processors but license the manufacturing to others. With this cash investment and the commitment to keeping the head office in Cambridge this is probably good for ARM but not great for UK PLC.

exocet

I think it's a shame. I don't understand and why this sort of company has to sell out. Were they being starved of investment capital?
I can recall an old mate of mine buying their shares back in 1997. Think he paid 28 pence for them. The current share price doesn't tell the whole story as there have been multiple share dilutions over the years. I think he ended up with 4 times as many shares the first time around. 

monquixote

Strangefan said:

They were great back in the day, I didn't even k ow they were being  sold, great mobile processors of the day 

I'm not sure what you mean by back in the day. 

You would be hard pushed to find any portable electronics that don't have an ARM in them.

Danny1969

Classic MS business model, the monies in the code and licensing not the hardware. I don't know what they charge, probably pennies per IC but there must be more third party built RISC chips running architec and code licensed to ARM in portable gear then any other OEM 

Myranda

monquixote said:

Strangefan said:

They were great back in the day, I didn't even k ow they were being  sold, great mobile processors of the day 

I'm not sure what you mean by back in the day. 

You would be hard pushed to find any portable electronics that don't have an ARM in them.

Indeed back in the day you'd be more likely to find some form of microcontroller where now an ARM microprocessor is used... ARM accounts for literally billions of current items in use... 

Strangefan

Ooooohk I knew they are the processor of choice for linux etc  based household electronics,  I am talking specifically about their mobile processors, which were great...... Put your pitchforks away tgp! 

Danny1969

 I don't think they actually make any processes they only license the code and the architecture of the mask substrate ... the layout of the transistors et cetera 

exocet

Strangefan said:

Ooooohk I knew they are the processor of choice for linux etc  based household electronics,  I am talking specifically about their mobile processors, which were great...... Put your pitchforks away tgp! 

They still are, pretty sure all of the top selling smartphones use ARM licensed technology in their processors. 

Axe_meister

And it all started with the Acorn Archimedes 

Strangefan

Axe_meister said:

And it all started with the Acorn Archimedes 





My dad used to sell them,  I remember him giving me a Vic 20, took me about 2 and a half hours to code it to make a sound like a helicopter