Riding the RISC-V wave

Re:Riding the RISC-V wave by klelatti on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:52AM (#24470845)

Sorry, but if ARM+Nvidia GPU already runs rings around everyone else besides Apple and Nvidia already has access to all of Arm's IP (and there was no threat of it losing that access) then why does it need acquire ARM to 'solidify' their position?

In reality it's not winning in the mobile SoC market and owning Arm will enable it to hinder its competitors.

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Re:Riding the RISC-V wave by tw04 on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:08AM (#24471038)

Because they want to own their own destiny? The same reason they could've OEM'd Mellanox switches but chose to buy the company instead.

What exactly would their end-game be if ARM were acquired by say... a Chinese firm who DID decide to end licensing terms. Then what?

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Re:Riding the RISC-V wave by klelatti on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:13AM (#24471111)

Arm was never going to be acquired by a Chinese firm - it would have been blocked.

The problem is that controlling its own destiny gives it control over all its competitors destinies too - and that's not good. I have nothing particularly against Nvidia btw - the same issue would apply for any major SoC designer buying Arm.

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Re:Riding the RISC-V wave by dragonelite on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:34AM (#24478753)

Maybe for data center chips, if im not mistaken Nvidia already pretty much own that marketsegment.

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