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 valuearb on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:21PM (#24457386)

Nvidia isn’t likely to invest $40B and then do anything to damage ARMs licensing efforts. They are likely to look to find synergies so ARM can incorporate Nvidia technologies and Nvidia can better utilize ARM technologies.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by adrian_b on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:47AM (#24459194)

I hope that NVIDIA does not have any plans to damage the development and licensing of Cortex-M and Cortex-R microcontrollers.

This is a business that has no overlap over what NVIDIA does and maybe NVIDIA could spin off this part of ARM as a separate company, because I can hardly imagine the NVIDIA management focusing in this business, where they do not have any experience.

On the other hand, ARM Cortex-A CPUs are better than those designed by NVIDIA and they are used in products (e.g. by Qualcomm) that directly compete with NVIDIA products.

I cannot imagine that NVIDIA will continue to design better Cortex-A cores and then give them immediately to their competitors.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by techdragon on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:48PM (#24457826)

That sounds like a great strategy to announce and do for a year or two... before changing course to “maximise value” by merging operations, jacking up licensing costs, making nvidia gpus part of the arm ISA, etc...

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by marticode on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:41AM (#24458666)

> making nvidia gpus part of the arm ISA

That would be amazing. Nvidia has arguably the best GPU designs in the market, this would be a boost for ARM IP business.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by rrss on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:36PM (#24458080)

> making nvidia gpus part of the arm ISA

what would this mean? are there any CPU ISAs with a GPU integrated into the ISA instead of just a peripheral?

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by justaguy88 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:31AM (#24458628)

it doesn't have to be 'technically' integrated, it could be something buisness-y like "licences now cost 2x, but you also get a licence for some nvidia stuff you didn't really need"

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by QuixoticQuibit on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:34AM (#24459136)

Does Nvidia have a history of doing this?

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