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Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

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Re: Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

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I for one would welcome this. Firstly, as mentioned, it gives people incentive to look into RiscV. That aside, for far too long QCOM has had a monopoly on the phone chip market. Patents aside, which increasingly became irrelevant due to the death of Sprint, their major advantage has always been in Adreno, which as far as I remember AMD basically did for them. Mali is terrible. If Nvidia could revamp ARM graphics at t…

QCOM dominance has absolutely nothing to do with Adreno.

It has to do with their superior modem.

Re: Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

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The 21st century has taught us that free trade makes the most sense.

Not really. Except if one confuses free trade and protection with planned vs market economy (which is a different distinction). The big powers that profited most in the 20th century, weren't following free trade - they were colonial and post-colonial overlords, enforcing their trade deals and terms on lesser countries. Free trade was OK for those big countries like the US, UK, France, Germany, etc they were running t…

>Now that the US can't do the same to China (due to its sheer size and power), old globalization and free trade flag-bearers discovered suddenly that free trade might not be the "be all end all".

This is one of the main reason why US is fighting China.

Re: Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

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did you really spam the whole song here ?

No. This is not the whole song, the whole song is longer than that.

It would have been funny if you replied "that just a tribute" (semi-quoting a Tenacious D song)
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