NVIDIA Acquisition of Arm Collapses, UK Company to Seek IPO

[Minus Infinity]

I don't own any ARM products and have no need for them, so I could care less honestly, good luck to them.

I've owned two Arm products since birth.

 

[Space Lynx]

I've owned two Arm products since birth.

It's hard not to buy a monopoly item that is hidden in devices and not chosen by the actual consumer due to lack of competition, I suppose

 

[Kanan]

I've owned two Arm products since birth.

Probably the ones you know of.

 

[RedBear]

Now that it's officially dead and all, I mainly wonder what kind of effect this will have on the development and adoption of RISC-V. I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that Nvidia's attempt at acquiring ARM had a positive effect on RISC-V's fortunes as an alternative to ARM's dominance.

 

[Kanan]

Now that it's officially dead and all, I mainly wonder what kind of effect this will have on the development and adoption of RISC-V. I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that Nvidia's attempt at acquiring ARM had a positive effect on RISC-V's fortunes as an alternative to ARM's dominance.

Well Apple saber-rattled with news of "changing to RISC V" or development of, I bet this is done and dusted now. Otherwise I didn't hear much about it

 

[Upgrayedd]

How is it over a billion dollars? That's incredible. Nvidia spent over a billion dollars on absolutely nothing.

 

[Kanan]

How is it over a billion dollars? That's incredible. Nvidia spent over a billion dollars on absolutely nothing.

It's funny to me that someone said this is "pennies" for them, I think it's a little more than that.

 

[Space Lynx]

How is it over a billion dollars? That's incredible. Nvidia spent over a billion dollars on absolutely nothing.

don't worry, its not really money to them, they will just raise prices next gen enough to make up for it. you will pay for it

 

[Kanan]

don't worry, its not really money to them, they will just raise prices next gen enough to make up for it. you will pay for it

You mean keep prices up? They already did that

 

[Space Lynx]

You mean keep prices up? They already did that

they will do it even more next time

 

[R-T-B]

maybe if it wasn't ARM routers wouldn't be used as botnet brute force hubs for DDOS attacks. maybe if some proper cpu's were in them DDOS attacks would not happen at all, who knows

Nothing to do with ARM, and everything to do with routers being a consumer product lots of time with very little software updates, all while basically being a linux minicomputer.

I think I get it now, thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. You are correct, I really didn't know as much as I thought I did.

So if ARM licensed say... IP to make a chip to put on say the RGB of a gtx 1070, and this chip was made in China, how do we know that telemetry of some kind is not built in to that RGB arm chip on the gtx 1070? Just curious... a hypothetical scenario... if you will... I only ask because I remember reading something like this once:

China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies by compromising America's technology supply chain.

www.bloomberg.com

full disclose i only read like the first paragraph there, but yeah

China is more likely to do that with their own inhouse MIPS designs, but you could theoretically do that with whatever. Including the American Intel ME and AMD PSP in every PC. It's a fun world.

 

[chodaboy19]

How is it over a billion dollars? That's incredible. Nvidia spent over a billion dollars on absolutely nothing.

Part of that payment also pays for Nvidia's 20 year ARM license.

 

[Kanan]

Part of that payment also pays for Nvidia's 20 year ARM license.

Source?

 

[chodaboy19]

Source?

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Announce Termination of NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced the termination of the previously announced transaction whereby NVIDIA would acquire Arm Limited from SBG.

nvidianews.nvidia.com

Nvidia Calls Off Acquisition of Chip-Designer Arm. It's About Time.

Nvidia and Japan's SoftBank call off Nvidia's purchase of chip design company Arm. SoftBank, which owns Arm, says it plans to take the U.K.-based chip business public.

www.barrons.com

SBG* will retain the $1.25 billion prepaid by NVIDIA, which will be recorded as profit in the fourth quarter, and NVIDIA will retain its 20-year Arm license.

 

[Kanan]

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Announce Termination of NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced the termination of the previously announced transaction whereby NVIDIA would acquire Arm Limited from SBG.

nvidianews.nvidia.com

This doesn't mean that the license is paid by that, it's just another remark. At least I'm reading it like that. Afaik the 1.25B was for the merger deal itself, comparable to a car deal that you didn't follow through = money gone

 

[TheLostSwede]

Now that it's officially dead and all, I mainly wonder what kind of effect this will have on the development and adoption of RISC-V. I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that Nvidia's attempt at acquiring ARM had a positive effect on RISC-V's fortunes as an alternative to ARM's dominance.

I think it will continue, as RISC-V is technically royalty free, unless you work with someone like SiFive or Imagination Technologies.

 

[arni-gx]

so, today, nvidia biggest dream for planning to make their own CPU with ARM technology is finllay has ended, forever.......

 

[awesomesauce]

so, today, nvidia biggest dream for planning to make their own CPU with ARM technology is finllay has ended, forever.......

they already do with the nvidia shield no?

 

[Panther_Seraphin]

they already do with the nvidia shield no?

Tegra is ARM based.

Plus they wanted to do with ARM with things like Physx etc. Make it a benefit ONLY to Nvidia and eventually make it so Nvidia have a 10-50% benefit vs everyone else. Any money this is purely for the Automotive industry with self driving and infotainment becoming a massive market and only growing.

 

[r9]

It's funny to me that someone said this is "pennies" for them, I think it's a little more than that.

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