From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 16:55:04 PDT
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Andrei Chichak wrote:
> After a slight bit of digging and reading articles on the Newton
> architecture and MMUs, there was a reference to Apple being in on the
> setup
> of ARM with Acorn and VLSI. As an initial shareholder they must benefit
> when companies license the core.
Not really.
Apple was (not WAS) a shareholder in ARM and made a tidy profit over
the years as they sold their stock off.
Simply go through Apple's filings on Edgar/SEDAR and you'll see they
have a lot of one time gains from the sale of shares.
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