It seems especially pertinent given that Softbank are in the throes of selling arguably the only British tech champion to Nvidia, which would fundamentally destroy their entire business model.
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It seems especially pertinent given that Softbank are in the throes of selling arguably the only British tech champion to Nvidia, which would fundamentally destroy their entire business model.
I think it's happened already
I wasn't sure, but it's one of the most baffling sales (for ARM) I can ever remember. Their whole business model relies on them being able to sell their chip designs to anyone and everyone, and it's hard to imagine Nvidia doing that when they've pretty much just bought monopoly access to them. Great for Nvidia, but awful for ARM and awful for the market. Thankfully Liz Truss will be on the case with the same gusto that she was on the case for bloody Stiltern.
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FT are reporting it's done.
Conflicting reports suggest it's done or extremely close to being done. Just waiting for the announcement video I imagine.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Not quite sure what you guys are hyperventilating about. Japanese owned British based company is now an American/Japanese owned British based company. The U.K. owns plenty of American based companies. It will be looked at, guarantees will be given and life will continue as before.....
At ease soldier, nobody is hyperventilating.
You don't have a clue who ARM are or what they do do you? lol
I wish @Joey66 was back to talk about salt on chips.
To be honest I don't think it's a concern.
Nvidia have already come out and said they don't intend to rip up licensing deals, it wouldn't be in their interest to do so anyway as they'd face massive anti-competitive pressure. There are alternatives to ARM on the horizon like RISC-V for example which Nvidia would be foolish to push these companies towards. The only way ARM succeeds is with widespread adoption across the market. Without that the technology would be useless to Nvidia.
The benefit to Nvidia is direct access to the minds and technology to allow them to build their own APU products to compete with AMD in Windows laptops, and potentially move away from needing Intel for traditional high powered CPU/GPU systems.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Of course I do, and I remember the fuss kicked up the first time around.....
I'm still not sure how it avoids anti-trust issues anyway. Even if Nvidia do 'only' use ARM to access the minds, the virtue of them having early access to the designs that most of the industry ultimately uses is in itself anti-competitive. ARM has thrived in large part because it's independent, or as their co-founder termed it this morning, the Switzerland approach. Being bought by a chip manufacturer destroys that.
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