Re:Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public int...
by klelatti on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:21PM
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Which is why there are distinct competition investigations going on in UK, EU and elsewhere.
I think you're overdoing the last point: there is lots of key technology licensed from US firms and no-one in the UK thinks that this is a major national security issue.
Much more likely that there is a specific issue that UK government has identified that poses a realistic problem for UK security services.
Re:Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public int...
by nottorp on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:24AM
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> no-one in the UK thinks that this is a major national security issue.
"says" yes... "thinks"... you don't know. I would think it if i were them.
Re:Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public int...
by ClumsyPilot on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:06PM
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" no-one in the UK thinks that this is a major national security issue."
Citation needed
From now on, every ARM processor costs $40 per chip to license. Except, of course, those made by NVidia.
or
From now on, all improvements to the reference ARM architecture will only be available in NVidia chips for the first two years. Afterwards they'll be available for licensing at the current costs.
Those are monopoly issues. And now a national security issue:
From now on, $RANDOM_EUROPEAN_COUNTRY is under embargo wrt to US intellectual property. NVidia being an US company, that includes ARM reference designs. Basically what happened to Huawei with the OS, except now it includes the CPUs too.
And I could go on...