A dichotomy in the chip world is looming with far-reaching technological changes.
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Munich It doesn’t matter whether it’s an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy: the British chip designer Arm earns money on practically all smartphones worldwide. The company supplies the blueprints for the processors, i.e. the brains of mobile phones and many other electrical devices.
The Cambridge-based company collects fees for this – and more and more. Industry insiders speak of sometimes drastic price increases. That’s why the chip industry is rumbling. A manager complains that some products are no longer worthwhile.
The reason: Arm wants to polish up its numbers before the IPO, industry insiders suspect. In the course of the year, owner Softbank wants to bring the group onto the floor in New York. This can be seen in the quarterly sales, which recently shot up by 28 percent to almost $750 million.
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