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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by sgift »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #69

Doesn’t this need regulatory approval from the USA and Japan? (Not that the USA would look a gift horse in the mouth, of course.)

There is a note at the end of the article:

"The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals for the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in approximately 18 months."

Hopefully, the EU does its job, laughs at this and tells Nvidia to either go home or forces them to FRAND licensing of ARM IP.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by scruffyherder »

Hypx wrote: post #144
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #72

I’m not convinced this is a death sentence for ARM. I doubt nVidia spent $40b on a company with the intention of killing it’s golden goose business model. The contractual agreements might change, but ARM wasn’t exactly giving their IP away for free before this move.

You know how the tobacco companies work? From a purely capitalistic standpoint, it's fine to kill off some of your customer base if you make more money from the remainder. If it can work for tobacco, you believe that Nvidia is will to kill off some of its customers if they can get the remainder to pay more.

Unless they are putting explosives in the chips the customers will be free to go elsewhere

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by dbcooper »

sib wrote: post #278
askvictor wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because so many of Google's acquisitions have ended up doing well...

Android, YouTube, Google Maps, DoubleClick, Applied Semantics (became AdSense), DeepMind, Urchin, ITA Software, etc. I think Google has done ok.

Has it had any successes with hardware acquisitions?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by moonchild »

dragontamer wrote: post #303
anarazel wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO VLIW is an absurdly bad choice for a general purpose processor. It requires baking in a huge amount of low level micro-architectural details into the compiler / generated code. Which obviously leads to problems with choosing what hardware generation to optimize for / not being able to generate good code for future architectures. And the compiler doesn't even come close to having as much information as the CPU has…

VLIW was the best implementation (20 years ago) of instruction level parallelism. But what have we learned in these past 20 years? * Computers will continue to become more parallel -- AMD Zen2 has 10 execution pipelines, supporting 4-way decode and 6-uop / clock tick dispatch per core, with somewhere close to 200 registers for renaming / reordering instructions. Future processors will be bigger and more parallel, Ice…

Have you seen the mill cpu?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by RealStickman_ »

tontonius wrote: post #359
totorovirus wrote: post #312

nvidia is notorious for being not nice to oss developers as Linus Torvalds claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ&ab_channel=Silic... I wonder how Linux would react to this news.

You mean how GNU/Linux would react to it?

Don't exclude the alpine folks please

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by dharma1 »

andy_ppp wrote: post #24

This sort of stuff really isn’t going to produce long term benefits for humanity is it. Does anyone know if or how Apple will be affected by this? What are the licensing agreements on the ISA?

I doubt Apple's arm license will be affected. But I think they will be getting tougher competition in the sense that Android phones will be getting a fair bit better now - most of them will be using super well integrated Nvidia GPU/ML chips in the future because of this deal.

I think it will also bring Google and Nvidia closer together

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by yangcheng »

zaptrem wrote: post #344
yangcheng wrote: post #289

I am surprised that no one has mentioned China will very likely block this deal.

On what grounds/with what authority?

is this a question or just sarcasm? The post said clearly "The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals for the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in approximately 18 months."
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