Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by spacedcowboy on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:03PM (#24475117)

Apple uses the ARM ISA. It doesn't use ARM IP - as in, the design of the chip. Apple designed their own damn chip!

Since they're not branding it as ARM in any way, shape, or form, and they have a perpetual architectural license to the ISA, I suspect they could do pretty much what they please - as long as they don't call it ARM. Which they don't.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by pas on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:29PM (#24475877)

During the design were they careful not to create any derivative works of arm IP and/or not to infringe on any of arm's patents?

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by spacedcowboy on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:41PM (#24485033)

Apple co-founded the company. I imagine that they have a right to that IP.

Even if not, then yes, I would imagine that a behemoth of IP design like Apple would probably have considered IP rights during that design...

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by floatboth on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:52AM (#24482678)

They definitely call it ARM in developer tools and technical documents.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by scarface74 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:17AM (#24492405)

I doubt that will be true going forward. They first used the “Apple Silicon” branding for the Mac and yesterday they used the branding for the Watch and iPad (?)

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