They could but they have a very strong relationship / want to acquire arm so it might not make much sense in today's terms — for Nvidia, Arm/RISC-V is more of a

They could but they have a very strong relationship / want to acquire arm so it might not make much sense in today's terms — for Nvidia, Arm/RISC-V is more of a software thing and they've spent a lot of money making their drivers and toolchain work on Arm so similar. My point WRT shovels is selling fabrication, which Nvidia can't do, to be clear.