Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by kllrnohj on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:53PM (#24472342)

I don't know if Nvidia is eager to re-enter the SoC market. It wouldn't be a clear path to more money, since they would need to then handle modem, wifi, ISP, display, etc... instead of just CPU & GPU. And they'd need to work with Android & its HALs. And all the dozens/hundreds of device OEMs.

They could, but that's more than just an easy money grab. Something Nvidia would already be familiar with from Tegra.

What seems more likely/risky would be nvidia starts charging a premium for a Mali replacement, or begins sandbagging Mali on the lower end of things. But Qualcomm already has Adreno to defend against that.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by entropicdrifter on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:48PM (#24472978)

Looks like Nvidia never left the SoC market to begin with.

The latest Tegra SoC launched March of 2020.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by kllrnohj on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:18PM (#24474641)

They released a new SBC aimed at autonomous vehicles. They haven't had a mobile SoC since 2015's Tegra X1. Which only made it into the Pixel C tablet, Nintendo Shield, and Nvidia's Shield TV (including the 2019 refresh)

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by riotnrrd on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:33PM (#24475419)

You're forgetting the TX2 as well as the Jetson Nano

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by kllrnohj on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:12PM (#24477548)

Which ended up in what mobile products?

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