A few years ago, NVIDIA ran an evaluation to place RISC-V inside their GeForce cards. Go figure!
And there's more about NVIDIA and RISC-V if anyone cares to find out.
As for the acquisition of ARM by NVIDIA, the bottom line IMO is NVIDIA only cares about putting the heebie-jeebies on their 'BFF' Apple. It's lead by Apple's announcement they were ditching Intel for ARM on MacBook. "That'll teach you for rejecting our graphics cards in MacBooks!". It's some sort of short-term revenge/one-upmanship/gas-lighting on Apple.
NVIDIA's share price (and most tech shares) are artificially inflated at the moment especially due to the US market. And 'working from home' seems to have encouraged lots of people to buy NVIDIA graphics cards so they can work/game all day. The tech bubble is due to crash.
Blockers to the deal:
- UK government referral to competition and monopoly regulators
- US interference ala Huawei and TikTok signifies it could be very bad for ARM licencees
- Crash of NVIDIA share price + dilution of share worth caused by the proposed deal
- US economy crash when government stops pumping CV19+ cash
- SoftBank realising NVIDIA share values will plummet (large chunk of the deal is in shares)
- ARM Holdings no longer being the "Switzerland" neutral entity
- Current licensees raising pitchforks conflict of interests/antitrust issues (see above line)
- Pitchforks line probably joined by NVIDIA share-holders seeing the worth diluted
- Whatever is going on with ARM China would have to be resolved ahead of completing the deal
- This list could grow and grow ...
https://savearm.co.uk/
I do not like NVIDIA but they made the Jetson, that was pretty cool.
In the end, I think NVIDIA's attempt to acquisition ARM will ultimately backfire and fall to pieces.
At least it's positive for RISC-V's growth (definitely I'll buy the Pinecil when it's in the store).
MIPS: Back in the 90's DECStation 3100 (MIPS) and DEC Alpha (RISC) were blisteringly fast workstations for the time! Sadly, I don't think MIPS is viable now but I remember.
And there's more about NVIDIA and RISC-V if anyone cares to find out.
As for the acquisition of ARM by NVIDIA, the bottom line IMO is NVIDIA only cares about putting the heebie-jeebies on their 'BFF' Apple. It's lead by Apple's announcement they were ditching Intel for ARM on MacBook. "That'll teach you for rejecting our graphics cards in MacBooks!". It's some sort of short-term revenge/one-upmanship/gas-lighting on Apple.
NVIDIA's share price (and most tech shares) are artificially inflated at the moment especially due to the US market. And 'working from home' seems to have encouraged lots of people to buy NVIDIA graphics cards so they can work/game all day. The tech bubble is due to crash.
Blockers to the deal:
- UK government referral to competition and monopoly regulators
- US interference ala Huawei and TikTok signifies it could be very bad for ARM licencees
- Crash of NVIDIA share price + dilution of share worth caused by the proposed deal
- US economy crash when government stops pumping CV19+ cash
- SoftBank realising NVIDIA share values will plummet (large chunk of the deal is in shares)
- ARM Holdings no longer being the "Switzerland" neutral entity
- Current licensees raising pitchforks conflict of interests/antitrust issues (see above line)
- Pitchforks line probably joined by NVIDIA share-holders seeing the worth diluted
- Whatever is going on with ARM China would have to be resolved ahead of completing the deal
- This list could grow and grow ...
https://savearm.co.uk/
I do not like NVIDIA but they made the Jetson, that was pretty cool.
In the end, I think NVIDIA's attempt to acquisition ARM will ultimately backfire and fall to pieces.
At least it's positive for RISC-V's growth (definitely I'll buy the Pinecil when it's in the store).
MIPS: Back in the 90's DECStation 3100 (MIPS) and DEC Alpha (RISC) were blisteringly fast workstations for the time! Sadly, I don't think MIPS is viable now but I remember.