Re: Flim Flammery
There is no UK interest in ARM because Softbank paid a stupid price for it, which they want to recoup.
The stupid price Softbank paid is for reference ~twenty years worth of ARM's yearly revenue and ~64 times their yearly profits. Softbank had presumably hoped to quadruple the licensing to make up for this, however when tried people started looking at switching to other things, and Softbank realised that they'd fucked up and started looking at selling ARM.
Therefore at the asking price it doesn't make financial reason for anybody to buy at the asking price which is roughly half the UK yearly defence budget, and which would be recouped circa 2085.
In fact, I suspect that the only people it would make sense to buy ARM for is Intel to maintain their chippery monopoly (which would surely be blocked by any sane competition authority) or AMD or Nvidia to expand their IP and to muscle their way into more markets.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
