Nvidia has approached Softbank and is considering buying ARM Holdings

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uzzi38

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Will update with articles as they come out (they haven't yet but news is public). For now just a couple of Tweets:



This is a real significant move for Nvidia, having a huge role in ARM core designs could have major implementations down the line. Most importantly, it secures them a platform and ecosystem down the line.

Oh and I guess Nvidia becomes the defacto standard for GPU IP for mobile instead of Mali. That too.

EDIT: Bloomberg article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ompany-arm-is-said-to-attract-nvidia-interest
 
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As expected, but in that whole failed process Nvidia had to abandon the mountain of $.

"SoftBank and Arm are entitled to keep $2 billion Nvidia paid at signing, including a $1.25 billion breakup fee, whether the deal goes through or not".
Oh brother, here comes more price gouging from Nvidia in the consumer gaming sector, to recoup their lost investment.
 
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soresu

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Wasn't MIPS a first class Android citizen? And yes there even was real Android MIPS devices. Where are the RISC-V ones?
It was once, but back then MIPS was still pretty big and ARM hadn't yet covered the world in its dominance of market sectors previously owned by MIPS and other players.

RISC-V is slowly creeping onto the scene, but it is definitely coming.

I wouldn't be surprised to find AMD replacing the smol Cortex A cores in their CPUs used for trusted environment with a RISC V core in the future.