Analysts foretell a explosion in the market for mobile devices, majority of which uses processors with the ARM- architecture. In this market segment even Intel company is interested, it plans to propose processors with x86- compatible architecture for analogous devices. Company AMD attempts to occupy place in this market segment with the aid of its hybrid processors with bobcat architecture, which will be used, also, for plane-table computers production.
Yesterday appeared rumors about the interest of apple company in the acquisition of shares block from ARM holdings. Theoretically, for Apple ARM purchase can make sense, since the company is active and sell mobile devices on base of processors with the appropriate architecture. After obtaining control over intellectual ARM property, apple company will be able to overlap access to the ARM- architecture to all other processors producers .
ARM holdings representatives in commentaries to British MEDIA acknowledged that for obtaining the access to their developments it suffices to acquire license, but not to buy entire company wholly. Let us recall that in 2008 apple already acquired PA semi company in order to forces its engineers to develop processor, which, supposedly, now enters in the composition of plane-table computers iPad.