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