Question of the Month: What will be the impact of ARM's IPO on the future of the ARM architecture?

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ARM Holdings just had an initial public offering (IPO), and ARM stock is now available on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Take the poll and in the Comments section, let us know how you feel about ARM going public.

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kmikemoo over 1 year ago +4

I'm going to guess "No impact". It's a cash infusion with no real voting power.
dougw over 1 year ago +2

At a wild guess - some brass will exit and overall the company will become more conservative with less vision and drive. More focus on short term profits and less focus on innovation (innovation is what…
scottiebabe over 1 year ago in reply to scottiebabe +2

Nice $100,000 car you have there, got ARM inside?

dougw over 1 year ago

At a wild guess - some brass will exit and overall the company will become more conservative with less vision and drive. More focus on short term profits and less focus on innovation (innovation is what leads to longer term profits)

I hope they don't use the cash to buy RISK V.
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kmikemoo over 1 year ago

I'm going to guess "No impact". It's a cash infusion with no real voting power.
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Christopher678 over 1 year ago

It would make ARM more stronger.
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dang74 over 1 year ago

Sometimes I take a cynical view on such things. This time around, though, I went the other way. I think this will make ARM even stronger. The influx of money will be good for R&D. When people get excited with a stock its total stock capitalization can exceed its earnings by a factor of a thousand or more.... and as long as growth continues this lopsided valuation continues. In the long term though today's hi tech giants will be perceived much like General Electric is viewed today and come back down to earth. Oh look at that. My cynicism came back.
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scottiebabe over 1 year ago

I don't know what happened to the royalty based on final product value idea
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scottiebabe over 1 year ago in reply to scottiebabe

Nice $100,000 car you have there, got ARM inside?
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DAB over 1 year ago

It depends upon who actually controls the technical side of the business.

Revenue has been steadily dropping as companies begin to develop their own chips for special tasks.

Some of the ARM cores are a bit dated and need an update cycle, which will be expensive.

We will have to wait to see if the public company can make the investment and still satisfy the shareholders.
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md_steve over 1 year ago in reply to DAB

Updates are unlikely if the best engineers are laid off because their salary is too high in the eyes of the Board of Directors.
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bradfordmiller over 1 year ago in reply to scottiebabe

Hello, RISC-V.
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