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Nvidia would be amongst the worst possible custodians of ARM. Their business models are quite strongly opposing: ARM's is to create a fair, competitive playing
by captainbland 5y ago
Nvidia would be amongst the worst possible custodians of ARM. Their business models are quite strongly opposing:
ARM's is to create a fair, competitive playing field between CPU producing companies and reap licensing fees for the pleasure, Nvidia's is to nakedly leverage all of its technologies for Nvidia's products' benefit and Nvidia's products' benefit only.
- tombert 5y agoWhile I too was against the NVidia+Arm merger, and am glad it's being abandoned, a large part of me feels like they wouldn't do it just because it could be an antitrust nightmare, with Apple and Qualcomm and LG all suing because of anti-competitive practices, and probably winning. I'm not a lawyer, but that seems like a likely scenario from the very little I understand about US law. I don't think NVidia would be quite that stupid; I think if they were smart they would keep ARM business as usual just to avoid that, and just reap the licensing fees from the above companies.
- WheatM 5y ago
- naruvimama 5y agoMicrosoft used to be in the same place, they started growing once they opened up. Instead of rent seeking. VLSI is hard, but with massive investments in fabs and design across the board, Nvidia will be forced to go the MS way. Nvidia licensing their GPU to ARMs customers will itself be a big start.