ARM taken over by Japan's SoftBank

[julian1]

How do they make their money - through ip licensing?

Wouldn't Chinese fabricators would be able to skirt around a lot that?

[ebclr]

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/sf2plus-dev-kit/arrow-development-tools

[andersm]

Wouldn't Chinese fabricators would be able to skirt around a lot that?

Even if they did, they'd never be able to sell a chip like that. They'd be hit with import restrictions the moment they tried, and would likely face legal action inside the country as well.

[westfw]

it is not about ARM,  it is about phone OS: Android and ApplePhoneOS.

Well, that would be my biggest worry.  In recent years, ARM has done a lot of development at the low end of the market: CM3, CM0, CM0+, CM4.  It would be bad if that all stopped and they only did development on Phone-class (and higher) chips...

(I'm also an "investor."  This purchase looks to cheat me out of my first "ten-banger" (currently up 914% since 2006.)
As for less successful investments, my ST stock is down over 15% in the last year, and Cree isn't doing so well.  My MCHP is up about 100%, but that's somewhat less than a NASDAQ index fund would have been over the same period.)

[ebclr]

Be ready for latter October all your stocks will have a Hugh devaluation, at least buy some sox puts to protect yourself

[westfw]

Be ready for latter October all your stocks will have a Hugh devaluation

Why October?
I'm certainly not looking forward to November :-(