Thread: Apple to buy Arm?
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Rauha is offline Rauha
2010-04-22 , 16:47
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
No-brainer for shareholders, maybe, but US regulatory agencies are supposed to act in support of taxpayers in general. If they do their jobs, this would never make it out of the gate.
ARM is UK corporation, which would mean that the European Commission (anti-trust section) would have to approve the deal. ARM is so dominant in the mobile CPU market that Apple would really have to commit into keeping ARM licensing on fair basis.
 

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