ARM, Microsoft sign new deal, ARM shares jump 7.1%

By on Jul 23, 2010 at 10:25 AM
General July 23, 2010

Reuters is reporting that Microsoft has just inked a new deal with chip manufacturer ARM that will give Microsoft “access to [the] ARM architecture instead of licensing products one by one.” Analysts are already beginning to speculate that this could be the first step in a plan that would have Microsoft designing its own ARM base processor; similar to Apple’s A4 chip based on ARM technology. “With closer access to the ARM technology we will be able to enhance our research and development activities for ARM-based products,” said Microsoft General Manager KD Hallman. Yesterday, Microsoft announced record earnings, today, a new chip deal. Making moves up in Redmond!

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  • TONY

    Would these chips be used in their W7 phones in the future?

  • C

    I hope this means they are going to develop a version of Windows 7 for the ARM platform.

    Microsoft has to see that the best way to develop a phone os is to just make a mobile version of an existing OS. That’s what Apple and Google did.

    Their current smartphone offerings are lame, but if I could run all my desktop applications on my phone, I would switch back to Microsoft.

    • Jon

      You got that right my friend. I think that Microsoft is heading that direction, another thing, On YouTube, Microsoft had an ad talking about Apps not working together. Yea, IPhone 4 and all other smart phones have multitasking, but what they don’t have are apps that work together. Microsoft is on the verge of doing what other smart phone don’t do; Integration. Just like what you do on the PC, but in a smaller scale. We just have to wait and see.

    • Matt

      it’s certainly an interesting prospect, and on a funny note if anything it might take people away from iphones.

    • JonHolstein

      Mobile versions of existing OSes from Google and Apple.
      What are they?
      Android was a mobile OS, when Google bought it. (if youre talking about Linux, its not really a OS, and the ARM comptibility is very old for linux)
      iOS, is not a mobile version of Mac OSx, it might share some core elements, but that does not an OS make. (and wasnt the ARM compatibility there when Apple purchased the OS?)

  • Jon

    I posted this under the:THE USUAL SUSPECTS, MICROSOFT CONFIRMS WINDOWS PHONE 7 LAUNCH PARTNERS.

    People are so quick to judge. WP7 will do great. Much better than we all expect. Microsoft is quickly changing its tune on its product. Microsoft Corp. today announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $16.04 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, a 22% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.93 billion, $4.52 billion and $0.51 per share, which represented increases of 49%, 48% and 50%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period.
    WHAT!!! Okay haters, Keep hating.. I would expect the phone to do a lot more than what’s been reviewed so far. Windows OS has come a long way. Xbox 360 Has comes a long way. Bing has come a long way; Windows Phone 7 OS will go a long way. Don’t under estimate.

    Now reading this. I stand by what I say. Microsoft had it’s ups and it really had it’s downs. With a company this big, why would anyone say.. “Microsoft should just give up doing cell phones”. Sounds stupid being said. It’s Microsoft people, the biggest software company in the world. Did people forget that one of the Richest person alive still owns the company????

  • DK

    Awesome!! Go M$

  • dba

    this is for enterprise computing. there is some company that makes servers based on Atom CPU’s. for huge server farms like Facebook it’s cheaper to use more servers based on cheapo CPU’s like the Atom rather than buy Xeon CPU based servers.

    intel has made progress in running with less power but there is still a lot of legacy crap on their CPU’s that eats more power than ARM CPU’s.

  • Mohammad

    MS should allow removable sd card in WP7. google is allowing that in android.

  • trooth

    If MS could get back to the idea of Pocket PC, with an updated user interface and touch friendly display (as in Windows 7 on a mobile device), they could very well recapture some of their lost enterprise customers. The WinMo 7 gaming and multimedia options look exciting for that market segment, but the enterprise customer’s is where MS should be focusing.

  • strider_mt2k

    MS and ARM could do some interesting things, if they do it right.

  • N8nnc

    I don’t see it for Windows. Microsoft has no history of chip or processor design. This is probably just a fairly low-cost step that keeps microsoft from looking too far out of the mobile game. You don’t just end up with software that runs well on multiple architectures, that needs to be a central design criterion from the start. Maybe for a future OS, but it’s a tricky value proposition to build a new one when (1) your profits come from licensing & Office applications, (2) there’s a “good-enough” OS freely available, and (3) the movement is toward covering up the OS details, so there’s no benefit from differentiating at the OS level.

    Of course, we’ll know they’re up to something for real if they acquire a processor boutique house, like Apple did.

  • JonHolstein

    There have been rumours of Applelooking to buy ARM.
    So perhaps Microsoft thought they should do their part to stop that from happening. They do have an OS for ARM. Windows Embedded Compact 7, the basis for WinPhone 7. And if apple would own ARM, apple could do damage to Microsoft, by affecting prizes to MSs OEM manufactors for winphone 7

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