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Agreed .. except weren't Ampere (2017) and Nuvia (2019) startups?

• floatboth 6y ago
  Ampere kinda was an acquisition of Applied Micro, but its internal X-Gene uarch was dropped into the trash very quickly in favor of Arm Neoverse…
• baybal2 6y ago
  Ampere basically started as a re-labeled XGene from Applied Micro which started back in 40nm days. And they came with quite some cash to start with: their backer is Carlyle Group, the biggest LBO shop in the world. Nuvia basically never intended to really compete Intel, or AMD heads on. Their $30m stash would've been just enough for a single "leap of faith" tapeout on a generation old node, and a year of life support after. They were aiming for a quick sell from the start too.
  • klelatti 6y ago
    Depends on your definition of startup I guess. Certainly seems to be enough capital available. I definitely don't agree with premise that it's now Boeing vs Airbus now (certainly less so than it was a few years ago when x86 was the only game in town).