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On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at since 2003)

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What is a microchip worth?

3 min readAug 1, 2020

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Intel has announced in its , which gives an idea of Apple recently announced it was instead.

Intel’s problems are not new: this is not the first time the company has announced delays. This time, however, is more serious, considering the importance of the and that competitors such as have been offering the market the same chips, which consistently improve on the performance of Intel’s, leading to a sharp drop in share value. For Apple, Intel had clearly become a bad bet, and going for other types of architecture over which, in addition, it could have higher levels of control made complete sense.

However, the microchip market is is a complex one right now: Japanese conglomerate , which acquired ARM in July 2016 for $32 billion, says that in the midst of a strong disinvestment to try to amortize the enormous losses of its technology investment fund it intends to .

Who would be interested in acquiring ARM, a company that in 2016 had a turnover of around $1.5 billion in licensing its designs and technology to device manufacturers, who pay a small amount for each unit sold? …

Enrique Dans
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On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at since 2003)

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Enrique Dans

Written by Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at )

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