Re:Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
by dralley on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:49PM
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Disclaimer that I really know nothing about these kinds of deals.
I understand that has historically been the case, but AMD is in a pretty good negotiating position right now, being effectively the only company that can provide what they bring to the table.
* a SoC with integrated CPU and GPU
* with high performance and decent power consumption
* and great synergy with the desktop x86 platform, in terms of developer knowledge, available tooling, and ISA compatibility with older games
I wouldn't be surprised if AMD is making a decent
respectable margin this time around. And if not, what they most certainly did get, was a bunch of free R&D money for developing ray-tracing technology for the consoles, which they can now leverage through their entire portfolio.
I understand that has historically been the case, but AMD is in a pretty good negotiating position right now, being effectively the only company that can provide what they bring to the table.
* a SoC with integrated CPU and GPU
* with high performance and decent power consumption
* and great synergy with the desktop x86 platform, in terms of developer knowledge, available tooling, and ISA compatibility with older games
I wouldn't be surprised if AMD is making a decent respectable margin this time around. And if not, what they most certainly did get, was a bunch of free R&D money for developing ray-tracing technology for the consoles, which they can now leverage through their entire portfolio.