SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by mohankumar246 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:02PM (#24457002)

Along with cpu's ARM also makes mobile gpu ip (Mali), nvidia as well in their tegra. I would be surprised if this deal went through.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by rbirkby on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:29AM (#24459100)

Mali was an ARM acquisition. It makes sense for NVidia to smash Mali and RTX together to allow Android manufacturers to compete against Apple.

Apple built their GPU studio from ex-Imagination staff and will introduce 3 GPUs over the next year: Sicilian, Tonga, Lifuka to support their mobile and desktop plans.

The question is whether ARM will sub license this combined GPU tech, or if it will be NVidia silicon only.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by ece on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:25AM (#24460377)

I think Android manufacturers need SoCs with 16MB L3 shared across the CPU+GPU+DSP+NN like the A13 more than they need RTX in a GPU.

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