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

Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by slimsag on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:32AM (#24175964)

I used the ZenFone 2 for about a year ~3.5 years ago; it worked surprisingly well. It was impressive that it really "just worked" like a normal ARM device.

There were some annoying software aspects (the Play Store only allowed me to download x86 apps even though it could run ARM apps), and the device was 100% a battery hog - but cool tech.

Surprised Intel gave up on that effort.

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by dannyw on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:43AM (#24176252)

Intel gave up because Atom for smartphones were sold at a negative price after marketing incentives. They couldn’t even get volume from manufacturers when it costed less than zero; because no one wanted to invest upfront R&D costs.

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by mycall on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:22AM (#24195556)

Intel should have made their own phones.

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