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I imagine that the real reason is not the attractiveness of the ISA, but the commercial danger of NVidia gaining control over Arm IP.
by GregarianChild 5y ago
I imagine that the real reason is not the attractiveness of the ISA, but the commercial danger of NVidia gaining control over Arm IP.
- zibzab 5y agoThat would make much more sense if the buyer was qualcomm.
- GregarianChild 5y agoWho says that Qualcomm are not also trying to do something in the RISCV space?
- unanswered 5y agoBased on LinkedIn searches, Qualcomm disbanded their general-purpose silicon IP division in Raleigh/Durham before the pandemic. So the question is, have they acquihired a team elsewhere to replace them, perhaps with more RISC-V knowledge? If not, you can infer they probably aren't seriously competing in this space.
- GregarianChild 5y agoLinkedIn is always interesting, I agree. For example, what is cloud guy like Larry Wikelius doing at a wireless processor company like Qualcomm?