Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by smolder on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:22PM (#24474033)

AMDs answer to Ampere won't be shabby based on info about next generation consoles. They're also widening the gap on CPUs with Zen to where ARM won't have an easy time making inroads on server/workstation.

On the Intel side, the process obstacles have been tragic, but they have plenty of hot products and plenty of x86 market share to lose, or in other words, plenty of time to recover CPU performance dominance.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by tibbydudeza on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:25PM (#24483954)

As Linus said ARM will only be widely adopted if there is availability of affordable hardware that developers can actually buy.

Apple has pulled this off about 4 times because of their small market share and willingness to deprecate old hardware, software and the close control of the hardware they release.|

In the PC world - x86 will remain with us for a LONG time to come.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by klelatti on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:16PM (#24486237)

Which is why Arm in Macs is a crucial moment for the whole of the Arm ecosystem.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by 013a on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:24PM (#24474050)

I hope so. And when AMD's graphics cards and Intel's processors become good again, they're welcome to reclaim a top spot. But, until then, they are woefully behind.

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