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It does not need to be. Softbank owning ARM is the status quo, the devil we know, and they have a track record of not running ARM availability/quality into the
by effie 5y ago
It does not need to be. Softbank owning ARM is the status quo, the devil we know, and they have a track record of not running ARM availability/quality into the ground. They don't seem to have motivation to do so. Also, they are invested in telecommunications, so having healthy and strong ARM position for mobile devices is in their interest.
NVIDIA, on the other hand, is suspicious. It is in their interest to use and manipulate ARM to release/restrict products in such a way that will strengthen their already strong market position with accelerators, and push down its competitors like AMD and Intel.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoIntel and AMD already have a monopoly on x86-x64, and both make GPUs and CPUs. Nvidia only makes GPUs.
- Tostino 5y agoThey were terrible at the CPU game with their Tegra line. Not sure if that's still going on. I'd rather Nvidia be kept away from Arm at all costs.
- dcow 5y agoOr, they realized they're terrible and instead of trying to be terrible again they're trying to be not terrible this time by acquiring people that actually know what they're doing? A good ARM Tegra sounds like a product that would benefit the market and thus consumers.
- Grazester 5y agoTerrible enough to power one of the best selling consoles of all time despite its shortcomings.
- posguy 5y agoNvidia's Jetson series computers and their various SOCs (as seen in the Nintendo Switch (Nvidia Tegra), Tesla's cars, etc) are not just GPUs.
- __alexs 5y agoIt is not possible for 2 competing companies to have a monopoly. Perhaps you suspect some sort of collusion between them? Seems unlikely given the kicking Intel have had the past few years.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoAMD has barely beaten Intel’s Sandy bridge, finally. Not enough for me to buy one. They don’t need to collude, they’ll “compete” by siting on their ass like Intel did, barely being better yet jacking up the price, only “Haswell” is renamed “Zen 3”.
- effie 5y agoWait a second, isn't Ryzen 5xxx much faster in single thread than Sandy Bridge ever was? Isn't the available number of cores greater as well?
- GhettoComputers 5y agoZen 2 beats it for price to performance, and much faster? It’s not even twice as fast. Nothing has doubled for close to a decade, and no difference in most real world usage.
- jhgb 5y ago> Intel and AMD > monopoly Pick one?