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ARM CEO comments on rumor of Apple interest in acquiring it

ARM CEOIf Apple's corporate life was already a rumored well, it looks like its $ 41.7 billion cash will become another part. The day after the The Register have considered the possibility of her acquiring ARM, the British newspaper Guardian published a clarification made by the company's CEO, Warren East (photo opposite), which questioned the reason why they speculated such nonsense.


While encouraging the price of our shares raised by these rumors, common sense says that our standard business model is excellent for technology companies to access our innovations, said East. If Apple's goal in spending $ 8 billion on ARM was to have access to its technology, it would never have created a proprietary processor like the A4, already based on licensed architectures between the two companies. No one needs to buy us, concluded East.

Such an opinion was expressed not only by the CEO of ARM, but also by other technology experts. In addition to not having to spend billions of dollars to buy it (since it already has access to what it needs to build its gadgets), Apple is not the type of company that goes after another corporation with influence on several manufacturers, even more when it leading corporation in the supply of semiconductors to cell phones.

THE Silicon Alley Insider believes that if there is a company with a real interest and potential to acquire ARM, that company would come from its own influencing market (like Intel, for example), and not from the personal computing industry. In terms of global competitiveness, it is not easy to get off the map, and I imagine that spending years resolving bureaucratic issues with governments to close a purchase of this nature is far from Apple's plans.