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EricHiggin said:

JEMC said:

Here come some good and bad news/rumors:

Rumor: NVIDIA is interested in purchasing ARM
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/rumor-nvidia-is-interested-in-purchasing-arm.html
Nvidia is said to be interested in obtaining chip designer Arm. That is what sources involved in this say to financial news agency Bloomberg. Last week it was revealed that SoftBank, the current owner of Arm, would be considering a sale.

kirby007 said:
Up next: nvidia buys intel

Nvidia needs to get more serious about CPU's for the future. With Intel down and about to get curb stomped by AMD, this would be a fairly opportune time to make big moves in the CPU space. Not that purchasing ARM would instantly or easily give them what they need to compete with AMD and Intel overall, but it would strengthen Nvidia's business as is and could help them make a solo push into the mobile/laptop space if they so choose. Intel is now dipping their toes into Nvidia's GPU space, so Nvidia would be smart to do the same or more in the CPU space where they can.

Not sure how exactly the licensing with ARM works or how Nvidia could mess with it if they wanted to or not. Though it would be quite interesting if they could at least set themselves up in certain sectors as the only or main ARM CPU/SOC supplier. Like ARM laptops perhaps, since that market now has some backing and should have room for growth, especially with Intel faltering. Maybe a push to try and become the majority supplier in mobile/handheld gaming?

A deal like this would be really intriguing.

I think Nvidia's best way to get the deal with ARM done without much trobles from watchdogs would be a hands-free approach: they own them, their licences and their profits, and can use their products at will, but ARM would still be free to do their own thing. Plus with Nvidia they're more likely to be able to develop more powerful and expensive products that an owner like Softbank, more focused on profits, wouldn't allow them to pursuit.

Regarding Intel, they can't afford another 10nm fiasco, not with a very competitive AMD that's starting to win marketshare in not only the desktop segment but also the lucrative server one.

And we really need Intel to be competitive just as much as we need AMD, to keep both of them in check and push technology forward.