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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by StillBored on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:03PM (#24475654)
Which hasn't kept them from building 64-bit cores with everything including AVX-512..

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3099/centaur-unveils-its-new-...

IIRC you watch the "Rise of the Centaur" documentary they talk about the Intel lawsuit, and the corresponding counter suit that they won. Which makes the whole thing sound like MAD.

More interesting there is https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/zhaoxin/kaixian

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by yearoflinux on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:34AM (#24491986)
Why doesn't someone like, say, TSMC acquire VIA in a deal where M&A experts do all their jugglery and cunning to make the licensing stay I wonder?
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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by thesz on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:00AM (#24493320)
Because TSMC can't compete with their customers and of them is AMD, I believe. TSMC promised not to build their chips, AFAIK, for exactly non-competition reason.
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