> NVIDIA licenses ARM IP now, if they bought ARM they would actually own the designs NVIDIA Carmel is NVIDIA's own Arm v8.2-A design [0]. They only licence the

> NVIDIA licenses ARM IP now, if they bought ARM they would actually own the designs NVIDIA Carmel is NVIDIA's own Arm v8.2-A design [0]. They only licence the architecture. The core is quite interesting, as it's doing dynamic recompilation for an underlying VLIW architecture. However, NVIDIA Orin[1] (followup for Tegra Xavier) will use a Cortex-A78 core[2] (formerly Hercules) licenced from ARM. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver [1] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-drive-agx-orin-advanced-software-defined-platform-for-autonomous-machines#:~:text=NVIDIA%20today%20introduced%20NVIDIA%20DRIVE,four%20years%20of%20R%26D%20investment https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-drive-a.... [2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/cortex-a78 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures...