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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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