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Re:EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors... by justicezyx on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:53PM (#25605601)
I know nVidia bought Arm, but what is about DeepMind being lost as domestic industry?

It raises to prominence after becoming a Google wholly owned subdiary. I have repeated multiple times in other comments that DeepMind's success is at least built on top of Google's tech and capital.

Interesringly, Google's tech infrastructure were blueprinted by a lot of pioneers and two of the most well known are Urs Hozle and Luiz André Barroso both are of Eu descentdent.

There is no evidence that whatever DeepMind did can be done with another EU partner. Or even anyone who is not Google, largely thanks to Larry and Sergey's personal tastes and experience. I doubt Msft or Amazon have the right culture for DeepMind.

The whole alphabet thing was engineered to allow independency. So that, among other things, a more pure research org can work without the ever encroaching of the profit driven hands inside Google. Mind you, DeepMind absolutely put itself above Google, or at least firmly distance itself from Google, GCP once proposed to use DeepMind brand in marketing materials, and was sharply rejected citing "conflicting brand images".

Re:EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors... by wwtrv on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:00PM (#25606337)
I assume, they meant the UK finally fully leaving the EU this year rather than the sale to Nvidia
Re:EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors... by usr1106 on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:14PM (#25607770)
Right. So if the Nvidia deal succeeds ARM will be US American.

I have no idea whether any of the relevant antitrust official could still stop it.