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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by klodolph on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:07PM (#24465093)
It's not too early to judge, because this has been in the news for a while and people have had the time to do an analysis of what it means for Nvidia to buy ARM. The press release doesn't add much to that analysis. We've seen a ton of press releases go by for acquisitions and they're always full of sunshine... at the moment, I'm thinking of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, but that's just one example. The typical pattern for acquisitions is that a tech company will acquire another tech company because they can extract more value from the acquired company's IP compared to the value the acquired company would have by itself, and you can extract a lot of value from an IP while you slash development budgets. Not saying that's going to happen, but it's a common pattern in acquisitions.

I think it's enough to know what Nvidia is, how they operate, and what their general strategies are.

Not saying I agree with the analysis... but I am not that optimistic.

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