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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by klelatti on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:21PM (#24456762)
Why would you be excited?

Nvidia can (and do) build their own ARM ISA CPU's offer them in the market so we already have access to Nvidia's take on the architecture. Do they have established expertise in ISA design or microcontrollers?

Maybe I'm missing something?

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by jayd16 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:38PM (#24463786)
Like I said, maybe there's room for GPU improvements in the ARM designs. Seems like nVidia could do something like pack in hardware DLSS. They license out their GPU designs so its not far fetched that their GPU features make their way into mobile ARM chip designs. The Tegra was a bit power hungry but maybe having control of the full stack can alleviate that.
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