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Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are. They are overvalued and have a huge mkt cap and are looking to make an acquisition as a resul

Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are. They are overvalued and have a huge mkt cap and are looking to make an acquisition as a result. Ultimately, the stock market will decide what Nvidia does with ARM. The pressure to deliver Q on Q improvements is immense. And re slashing and burning, it happens all the time in semiconductors. When you make an M&A, the first thing you look for are cost reduction opportunities because that’s one of the P&L drivers which in turn drives stock price (supply shortages notwithstanding). As for synergies (the other big thing in an M&A) I just don’t see any. If ARM goes to Nvidia it will be a disaster for ARM. Herman Hauser, ARM’s founder (now retired) has said as much. He was very unhappy about the SoftBank deal as well.

volta83 5y ago
> Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are. You keep saying this, but this still does not match the reality that Nvidia has bid a lot of money for ARM. So there must be something "in" for them that makes it worth it for them to pay 40 billion dollars. The claim that this deal will be a disaster for ARM is IMO equivalent to saying that "killing ARM is worth 40 billion dollars to NVIDIA". That makes no sense, at all. The only reason ARM is worth 40 billion dollars is because of its users. If ARM loses its user base, it is worth as much as MIPS or OpenPOWER (aka 0 dollars). Also, if ARM loses its user base, NVIDIA ARM CPUs become worthless. I have a hard time believing that, after investing 15 years of R&D into their own ARM CPUs and finally shipping serious ARM CPUs to market, NVIDIA would pay 40 billions to make that all worthless.