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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by DoingIsLearning on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:48PM (#24014587)
ARM doesn't manufacture chips, they license ARM Processor 'designs'.

ARM is more of a household name for their use in mobile phones but that is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think you underestimate how many ARM chips you have in a single car or delivery truck.

Add to that:

- farming machinery

- construction machinery

- factory line automation

- elevators, escalators

- EV chargers

- fridges, washing machines, ovens

- medical devices such as drug-infusion pumps, ventilators, surgical machinery, etc.

- Auxiliary modules in aeroplanes and shipping containers.

- Infrastructure for Road, Rail, Power Grid with ARM processors running headless embedded systems

- Anything the size of a pebble with bluetooth connectivity uses nordic's nRF chip (which is yet again an ARM chip)

ARM processors are hiding in plain sight in the world all around you.

I understand the point you make, from a business standpoint, on how Tiktok might scale. The thing that is bizarre for me and I agree with the parent's sentiment, is how disconnected the valuation is from the real-world impact and objective _usefulness_ of ARM versus Tiktok.

Edit: bullet points

Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by amelius on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:15PM (#24014857)
> The thing that is bizarre for me and I agree with the parent's sentiment, is how disconnected the valuation is from the real-world impact and objective _usefulness_ of ARM versus Tiktok.

Also how easily the technology behind Tiktok can be duplicated compared to ARM.

Anyway, it's probably all about the network effect and brand value.

Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by sjwright on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:13PM (#24016355)
ARM has no exposure to any end consumers and takes the tiniest sliver from each sale—if anything at all.

Tiktok can deliver arbitrary content to hundreds of millions of people’s eyeballs around the planet.

Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by ekianjo on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:39PM (#24015667)
ARM processors are also in pretty much any storage device like hard drives too.
Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by mcdevilkiller on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:23PM (#24014912)
Also Intel ME and (not sure, but probably) AMD PSP.
Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by einr on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:15AM (#24018998)
The ME runs on an ARC chip, not ARM.
Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by temac on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:42AM (#24020778)
It did run on ARC, but now it's just a 486.