SoftBank покупает ARM Holdings за 24 миллиарда фунтов стерлингов

И… все??

Это событие может сильно повлиять на всю экосистему ARM

Разбор чего-то подобного я и ожидал когда кликнул на Вашу статью.

Эта новость уже много где упоминалась, даже на 4пда 4 дня назад об этом писали.

Недавно стало известно, что Fujitsu постепенно отказывается от архитектуры Sparc64 в своих суперкомпьютерных решениях в пользу собственной реализации ARMv8:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/fujitsu_arm_supercomputer/ Fujitsu picks 64-bit ARM for Japan's monster 1,000-PFLOPS super. Sparc dumped in high-RISC maneuver? 20 Jun 2016

The Post-K machine is supposed to have 100 times more application performance than the K Supercomputer – which would make it a 1,000 PFLOPS beast – and is due to go live in 2020.… It would also make the world's fastest known computer an ARM-powered system; there are no other ARM-powered supercomputers. Today, at the International Supercomputing Conference 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, Fujitsu revealed its Post-K machine will run ARMv8 applications.… A spokesperson for Fujitsu has been in touch to confirm that the new ARMv8-compatible chip "will be the main processor, not a coprocessor" in the Post-K machine.… https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/06/20/fujitsu_armv8.jpg?x=648&y=470&infer_y=1

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3086252/computer-hardware/fujitsu-turns-to-arm-for-post-k-supercomputer.html

The company also sells servers based on SPARC. There's a chance those might also shift to ARM, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research. Fujitsu already makes ARM-based microcontrollers and networking chips.

https://www.top500.org/news/fujitsu-switches-horses-for-post-k-supercomputer-will-ride-arm-into-exascale/ Fujitsu Switches Horses for Post-K Supercomputer, Will Ride ARM into Exascale. Michael Feldman, June 23, 2016

In retrospect, selecting ARM for their exascale systems makes a good deal of sense. Fujitsu will be able to leverage the very large ecosystem that surrounds that architecture, while still being able to provide differentiation based on their implementation of the chip. The intent here is to build an ARM architecture geared to HPC workloads, with the level of floating point performance that that implies. That means the chip will offer much more powerful vector processing capabilities than are currently available in ARMv8, as well as other features associated with muscular architectures like the SPARC64.… Significantly, Fujitsu is not alone in this effort. It will work with ARM Holdings to develop the HPC extensions to the ARMv8 specification, which presumably will be available to any licensee. There may be other vendors involved as well. While Fujitsu is spearheading this work, the company is characterizing its role as “the lead partner of the ARM HPC extension effort.”… At this point, the timeline for the HPC ARM specification is unknown, as are the specifics of its features and capabilities. But not for long. On August 22nd, at the Hot Chips Conference in Cupertino, California, all of these questions should be answered. Nigel Stephens, Lead ISA Architect and ARM Fellow, will present the new architecture in a talk titled, “ARMv8 — A Next Generation Vector Architecture for HPC.”

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/solutions/business-technology/tc/events/isc16/index.html
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/moving-forward-the-next-step-in-fujitsu-supercomputing.pdf#page=3
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/fujitsu-next-endeavor-the-post-k-computer.pdf

Fujitsu is entering the ARM community to utilize its power and to contribute. Fujitsu adopts ARM ISA for Post-K’s CPU. Fujitsu is the “Lead Partner” in ARM HPC extension development. Fujitsu is designing and implementing its proven HPC-optimized microarchitecture into the ARM ISA-based CPU.… Fujitsu’s compiler will support ARM ISA and the advanced optimizations…