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I am totally okay witht he U.S. owning it for strategic reasons. I just wish it wasn't Nvidia...Too much centralization. Another company (IBM?) would help ensur

I am totally okay witht he U.S. owning it for strategic reasons. I just wish it wasn't Nvidia...Too much centralization. Another company (IBM?) would help ensure ongoing competition.

dogma1138 6y ago
IBM? Seriously give the geriatric case control over yet another ISA? NVIDIA was bullied by both AMD and Intel when it wanted to make GPUs that are capable running x86 code. IBM would pretty much kill ARM at least SoftBank left it be. NVIDIA on the other hand will come with a strong vision and competency this is by far the most exciting shift in the semi market for years and we might finally get some competition in the CPU space.
- pantalaimon 6y ago
  > we might finally get some competition in the CPU space You are talking about Desktop / Server CPUs I presume. The problem is that this is detrimental to the competition in the mobile / phone CPU space as Nvidia is a direct (although not very big) competitor to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon etc., but would now own the architecture everyone is using.
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    >Nvidia is a direct (although not very big) competitor to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon etc. NVIDIA isn't a direct competitor to any of those, they had a single product Tegra that can even be considered a competition.
- farisjarrah 6y ago
  In the long run, I'm very much hoping that this makes governments and organizations accelerate the development of RISC-V.
- SubiculumCode 6y ago
  Relax. I was just throwing out the name of a large established technology company. The point is not to have merging between competitors.
- protomyth 6y ago
  IBM? Seriously give the geriatric case control over yet another ISA? IBM knows how to license an ISA and has heard of open source. NVIDIA hates open source almost as much as Oracle. I'm pretty sure its not going to go well if NVIDIA gets ARM.

I am totally okay witht he U.S. owning it for strategic reasons. I just wish it wasn't Nvidia...Too much centralization. Another company (IBM?) would help ensure ongoing competition.

dogma1138 6y ago

IBM? Seriously give the geriatric case control over yet another ISA? NVIDIA was bullied by both AMD and Intel when it wanted to make GPUs that are capable running x86 code. IBM would pretty much kill ARM at least SoftBank left it be. NVIDIA on the other hand will come with a strong vision and competency this is by far the most exciting shift in the semi market for years and we might finally get some competition in the CPU space.

pantalaimon 6y ago
> we might finally get some competition in the CPU space You are talking about Desktop / Server CPUs I presume. The problem is that this is detrimental to the competition in the mobile / phone CPU space as Nvidia is a direct (although not very big) competitor to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon etc., but would now own the architecture everyone is using.
- dogma1138 6y ago
  >Nvidia is a direct (although not very big) competitor to Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon etc. NVIDIA isn't a direct competitor to any of those, they had a single product Tegra that can even be considered a competition.
farisjarrah 6y ago
In the long run, I'm very much hoping that this makes governments and organizations accelerate the development of RISC-V.
SubiculumCode 6y ago
Relax. I was just throwing out the name of a large established technology company. The point is not to have merging between competitors.
protomyth 6y ago
IBM? Seriously give the geriatric case control over yet another ISA? IBM knows how to license an ISA and has heard of open source. NVIDIA hates open source almost as much as Oracle. I'm pretty sure its not going to go well if NVIDIA gets ARM.