ARM Holdings set to be taken over by Japanese company

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Japanese company Softbank is to make a £24bn bid to buy Cambridge-based ARM Holdings. The Raspberry Pi’s CPU contains an ARM processor, along with the VideoCore GPU. What this will mean for the Raspberry Pi is anyone’s guess at this point. However, Softbank have said that they intend to invest in, and grow, the Cambridge operation so chances are nothing will change in the short-to-medium term. Read more on the BBC.

4 comments for “ARM Holdings set to be taken over by Japanese company

  1. Oh dear, yet another very successful British Company get taken over
    by a foreign investor. I hope this goes well, but I have my doubts.

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