#Unfounded Speculation
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Hey! Just read on ENS that Samsung bought a license from a company in Britain
called Advanced RISC Machines LTD (ARM). The article said Samsung will embed
ARM chip technology in products to be developed jointly by Samsung and ARM.
(Unfortunately, no mention of the dreaded C= or our illustrious Amy:( Thought
it was interesting news, though…. IF, and I fully realize that this is a BIG
IF, Samsung _is_ in the process of buying Amiga from C= (or something
similiar), this _might_ (as in, have you purchased lottery tickets lately?)
indicate a possibility (as in snowball and Hades) of a RISC Amiga in the future
(if dreams do come true once in a while). Say, does anyone have the phone
number of Samsung's US HQs? I know I could find it in the library myself, but
I'm feeling a little lazy… MAYBE Samsung would tell us something if we just
asked (yeah, right!)
Garry,
Samsung is also a licensee for the PA-RISC … they're the 18th largest company
in the world with '93 revenue over $58B. Just because they enter into an
agreement or become a licensed manufacturer of a particular product, you can't
read much into it. For instance, Samsung and HP have a joint venture called,
appropriately, Samsung Hewlett Packard (SHP on the Tokyo exchange). SHP and
Samsung Electronics are currently having a knockdown drag out fight over the
printer market in Korea.
There are rumors galore based upon some semblance of fact, then you've got the
idiots making up their own just to yank your chain. Hopefully something good
will happen, but, until there is any kind of official announcements one way or
the other just take it one day at a time. It'll probably all turn out to be
not as good as you hope nor as bad as you fear.
Well, in the mean time, a guy can dream, can't he? Besides, I set that damn
file on ENS and it was the first relevant news all week. I was glad to have
something _remotely_ related to C= or Samsung come up… it's almost like a
media blackout. If this goes on much longer, I might hire a Bahaman private eye
to check things out;) On second thought, might be easier to just by plane
tickets… I need a vacation anyways.
"it's almost like a media blackout"
It really isn't. Even though it's been delisted, Commodore is still a
publicly held company and subject to the rules of the SEC. Any developments
having a material effect on the company must be reported in a timely manner
lest Commodore's management itself face costly lawsuits.
Commodore's creditors as well also have a right to material information on
the company's prospects.
As the liquidation itself gets underway, there will be regular reporting to
the Bahamian court as well.
So, unless Commodore management and its trustees are deliberately trying to
get themselves sued, you can reasonably assume that there's no news of
substance to be reported.
Jerry
"Just read on ENS that Samsung bought a license from a company in Britain
called Advanced RISC Machines LTD (ARM). The article said Samsung will embed
ARM chip technology in products to be developed jointly by Samsung and ARM."
I believe ARM is the company supplying the processor used in the Apple
Newton. Apple is also an investor in the firm, if this is the one I'm thinking
of.
A number of firms, including Sharp, have licenses for this CPU and are using
it in their PDA development. I seriously doubt that it has anything to do with
the rumored acquisition of Commodore.
Jerry
Sounds logical. I've been searching business journals (online and otherwise)
all week, newspapers, etc., and I can't find anything substantial on C= – this
quip was all I've found on Samsung. Thanx for the informative post – I'll let
you know if I come up with any more half-baked ideas.
>> I believe ARM is the company supplying the processor used in the
>> Apple Newton. Apple is also an investor in the firm, if this is the one
>> I'm thinking of.
Yes. They the 3DO machine also uses an ARM processor.
-Mitch
Gary,
I believe that Advanced RISC Machines Ltd (ARM) is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Olivetti.
Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium