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tokyojoe

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About tokyojoe

Old guy. 20 yrs in semiconductors (10 in 🇬🇧 and 10 in 🇯🇵 , 🇹🇼 and 🇨🇳 ) and before that 20 yrs in electronics.

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    Comment #26934449

    You have not given a single strategic imperative for the Nvidia acquisition. They have full access to the IP. The real issue here is Nvidia are hugely overvalued thanks to the vaga…

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    Comment #26872573

    That’s exactly what it was - an opportunity to cash in. The other side of this coin is when you have supply shortages and/or a stock mkt run as we now have, some companies end up w…

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    Comment #26872543

    Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are. They are overvalued and have a huge mkt cap and are looking to make an acquisition as a result. Ultimately, the s…

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    Comment #26867643

    ARM is used across a huge array of end market segments. Granted, none are as big as mobile, but they’re important nonetheless. To say that all ARM SoC vendors are competitors is th…

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    Comment #26866312

    This reminds of the analyst who predicted AMD’s acquisition of ATI would kill off Intel. Nothing of the sort happened. If a chip supplier like Nvidia buys ARM and uses its products…

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    Comment #26864989

    Power consumption is a key application requirement for mobile. I don’t know that GPU’s are designed to run on the smell of an oil rag which the ARM processor cores do.

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    Comment #26863543

    You’re talking about M&A (market consolidation) and I am talking about the supply and value chain. Two completely different things. The supply/value chain is broken up into little …

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    Comment #26862832

    You might be right here.

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    Comment #26862810

    Yeah. Looks like that. :)

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    Comment #26862692

    The semiconductor supply chain is now almost completely disaggregated ie everyone specialises in just a small part of the value chain. ARM’s speciality is in CPU design and it has …