Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by Followerer on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:31PM (#24472756)

" It's an open secret that ARM was (and still is) selling the CPU design at a discount if you integrated their Mali (GPU)."

Why is that bad? Not only it's common business practice (the more you buy from us, the cheaper we sell), it also makes sense from the support perspective. Support the integration between their cores and a different GPU would be more work for them than integration of their cores with their own GPUs.

That's why companies expand to adjacent markets: efficiency.

A completely different thing would be to say: "if you want our latest AXX core, you have to buy our latest Mali GPU". That's bundling, and that's illegal.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by johannes1234321 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @08:25AM (#24480406)

A question is how big those discounts are.

Microsoft have away a free browser with their operating system - leaving little room for other browser vendors to serve that market.

Each ARM design deal including a GPU for cheap leaves little room for other GPU vendors.

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