Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift

Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift by baybal2 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:10PM (#25767329)

Yet, very remarkable given that they were nearly stomped out of the market around 2010-2012 by previously "no-name" SoC makers, making cookie cutter SoCs cheap, fast, and selling by tons.

Yet, they recovered, and clawed back their way to the top, with only MediaTek now threatening them.

I don't expect MediaTek to be as inept, and Pavlovian if Qualcomm will ever come to them with a deal, as they did with Allwinner 8 years ago (Allwinner gave up on mobile market, and Qualcomm gave them an obscene cut from their low-end Snapdragons in return.)

And knowing Taiwanese, they simply don't sell companies owners spent their life working on. Very ego driven business culture.

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Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift by robert_foss on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:15PM (#25767385)

Mediatek has 31% market share of the smartphone SOC market, and Qualcomm 29%.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/mediatek-biggest-smartp...

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Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift by phonon on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:09PM (#25769882)

I think that must be in units, not dollars. Qualcomm chipsets are nearly universal on the higher end.

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Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift by robert_foss on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:22AM (#25774059)

Not having looked at it at all, I think so too. But the trajectory of them overtaking Qcom is interesting either way.

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Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift by rektide on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:10AM (#25787243)

this would help explain why all winner was on a roll making pretty great chips and has shipped absolutely worthless tripe for! he past 5 years. re-spins of rhe same shit they had been making. the chip making game feels so diseased.

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