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by kd913 1481 days ago
>It seems like ARM is in a really strong position for the next decade or two.

What? They just had a massive layoff which culled 15% of their staff?

In this climate, no way in hell they would be rated as an instant buy.

Their revenue growth and revenues in general are tiny what $2.8 billion, and mostly restricted to licensing/royalties.

They were gonna be bought by nvidia for what 40-60 billion dollars?

They are also competing in the space with massive players a la Nvidia, AMD, Intel who are looking to eat their lunch.

The landscape is shifting by adopting the Big Little structure, adding more core counts, and a much bigger prioritization towards dedicated accelerator offload cards. Not to mention an increase in prioritization to RISC V.

I wouldn't put them as an instant BUY.

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> Their revenue growth and revenues in general are tiny what $2.8 billion, and mostly restricted to licensing/royalties.

Their business IS licensing and royalties

> The landscape is shifting by adopting the Big Little structure, adding more core counts ...

Arm invented Big/Little in 2011 [1]

Arm SoCs win on core counts [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE

[2] "Ampere's flagship 128-core Altra Max M128-30 ... packs an unprecedented number of general-purpose 64-bit cores"