Hey I have a wild idea, how about a thread dedicated to technology and not just blatant consumerism.
What does Sup Forums make of SoftBank's acquisition of ARM? This doesn't seem like that much money considering how much Whatsapp and Linkedin went for.
How are those things holding up after all these years? Can you acquire replacement batteries?
Jack Rogers
You can buy recycled Chinese batteries
Aaron Thomas
SoftBank seems pretty keen on expanding. First Sprint and now ARM.
For what purpose?
I have a Cyan N9. I just can't use it as anything other than a phone call / sms business phone. My primary has to have both LINE and WeChat.
Justin Adams
Use QQ
Jayden Barnes
It's still a lot of money. It just doesn't get overvalued insanely even though they have a solid business plan, that isn't let's live on VC capital and hope someone buys us out, because normies don't know what they are or even do and thus they don't generate nearly as much hype.
Lincoln Clark
>What does Sup Forums make of SoftBank's acquisition of ARM?
Nippons trying to get ahead of the curve in chip technology, their tech sector has become stagnant over the last few years
Also their new supercomputer will be ARM powered
Dominic Scott
That's fine for my Chinese friends but what about my Jap and Thai friends?
It's just not possible.
Austin Flores
Nippons are kill anyway.
Jack Myers
Shit is hitting the fan, about to jump chips (heh). Can't say much but, as a general rule, let's say that sushies are a pain to do business with.
William Collins
this japan has an inferiority complex now due to the war. they heard china has thier own cpu,so they too want one
Luke Perez
NIPPON STRONKU
Ayden Ward
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Jacob Scott
>britcucks are losing even their tech now
Ryan Taylor
how is this Sup Forums related?
Tyler Cruz
ARM has had troubling dealings in the past with media associations like the MPAA in which they developed embedded hardware DRM. They've done a few things like that, and from a freedom perspective its basically making a nuke and giving it directly to a terrorist. I can't imagine how this acquisition will make things worse, but I can't see it becoming any better either. At the very least their core CPU, fabric, and GPU IP will remain unaffected for the next 3 years.
How about you learn to fucking read?
Grayson Gutierrez
This is why we need FOSS CPUs. ARM Holdings was independent of hardware manufacturers before but now they're going to get involved in the hardware business indirectly through a carrier. This shit is going to end up like x86 at some point whenever Softbank sells ARM or gets bought up.
Gavin Wilson
So, about 5 years until 85% of the ARM UK jobs get moved out of the UK and into Japan/SK/India. Britcucks on suicide watch.
Nolan Lopez
We already had FOSS CPUs and all are DOA. People want things that fucking work and do things like play angry birds.
Ayden Roberts
Sprint and arm being owned by the same company means optimizations for sprint and leverage against the mobile market.
Charles Roberts
>What does Sup Forums make of SoftBank's acquisition of ARM? It's not going to happen, SoftBank doesn't have the money.
Apple and Google are already lining up their own offers, they have much more capital than SoftBank.
It's definitely important news, but it's also important to note that SoftBank isn't going to own ARM - someone else, with far deeper pockets who previously didn't care, will end up buying them just to prevent a carrier owning the ISA most every smartphone and tablet uses...
Bentley Jackson
YES! YES! YES! Thank you! A competitive architecture going from being owned by perfidious anglos living in a surveillance state to honorabru nipponese.
Landon Rogers
>What does Sup Forums make of SoftBank's acquisition of ARM? This doesn't seem like that much money considering how much Whatsapp and Linkedin went for.
This is a symptom of ill values of our consumerist society. People tend to forget about critical infrastructure that keeps them alive and well, and the perceived valuation of this infrastructure falls.
That's why people value fundamental technologies like CPU IP/microarch less than certain consumer-facing social networks.
Lucas James
>FOSS CPUs why do people keep using this meme you can't modify them you can't audit them you can't viably make your own unless it's implemented on an also (unverifiably) free FPGA it is not free
Ryder Nguyen
I'm not interested in any of that, what I want is for there to be a permanent source of innovation like with the linux kernel but also ensure that one company cannot just become a gatekeeper and prevent other companies from using it.
Tyler Barnes
on (un?)related note, the opera deal with the chinese failed.
Chase Torres
Basically what I was trying to say is I want assurance that one company cannot take over the entire ISA. By using a FOSS license for the designs the companies using it can be assured that their contributions wont be taken without something given back in return. This would hopefully lead to something like the linux kernel where the project has a ton of huge companies contributing to it.
Oh I believe you. They can guard it with trumps wall too.
Jason Walker
Go to Opencores. Download what you want. Audit if you feel like it. Install Linux (or VMS). Enjoy.
You can do this today. Few bother.
Aiden Hill
>I don't know what a supercomputer is
Jace Moore
Why did it fail? That's good news right?
Lincoln Barnes
>That's good news right? nope:
Adrian Jones
What would ARM-tan be like?
Owen Powell
ARM is a decent candidate for supercomputers designed to tackle "embarrassingly" parallel problems.
Owen Garcia
Stock up 41.10%
Connor Murphy
Pro tip: SoftBank is run by a zainichi. He couldn't give a fuck about Japan's industrial advantage, etc. He's just good at striking when Yen is high and other currencies are low and leveraging Japan's extremely low-interest corporate bond market.
Jaxon Lee
I hope
Nathaniel Smith
That's not technology, that business. Use . Thank you.