Nvidia to acquire ARM, what impact it would have?

[Gandalfthewhite]

It wasn't just the UK, China did not want it to happen either. Their are a lack of advanced chip designers outside of the US ARM being the biggest of them. Having them be owned by a US based company was not something some of the bigger political players wanted.

 

[Trunks0]

It would have sucked for everyone if this had gone through, so happy it didn't.

 

[Sasquach]

Ya the search function here is pretty broken among other things.

I suppose they could use that 1.25 billion to simply buy an arm license. Would accomplish the same thing and nvidia can get into the cpu business.

But they already use ARM in their TEGRA products......

 

[Gandalfthewhite]

yeah this wasn't so NV could build arm chips this is NV wanted to leverage ARM knowledge to build a vertically integrated server stack that was ALL nvidia its why they have been buying up different server product vendors slowly building up their in house hardware divisions for enterprise.

 

[Megaman]

You could say this cost them an ARM……..


I’ll see my self out.

 

[pax]

But they already use ARM in their TEGRA products......

Ya but what can they do with that cpu. Maybe they wanted the ability heavily custom design it at their leisure.

 

[Chuck]

Meanwhile I am sure the world will turn a blind eye when a Chinese firm buys them.