Nvidia Arm Apple

A merged nvidia arm would result in a market at least 10 times larger than today s mobile.

Nvidia arm apple. With a perpetual license to use the current arm cores and a likely multi year wait to see if nvidia can get its acquisition past regulators apple has time on its side to work on its own architecture. However arm based laptops are gradually improving and manufacturers are slowly moving over to the alternative architecture as seen with apple. That said apple and nvidia don t compete much in the market apple tv and. In late july bloomberg noted that nvidia was eyeing arm while also reporting that apple despite a well publicized shift to arm based silicon.

Nvidia s acquisition could well speed up this. Yesterday patently apple posted a report titled in their push to win the data center market nvidia draws closer to a deal to acquire uk s chip designer arm. Arm is currently owned by softbank group a giant japanese holding. That tracks with reports from the past few months.

Nvidia s 40b deal for arm could affect apple nvidia agreed to pay arm s current owner softbank group 12 billion in cash and 21 5 billion in stock along with other payments for the chip. Apple has done much the same with its annual developer conference development tools and financial. Bloomberg has two reports on the matter one stating that nvidia is interested in buying arm and another saying that apple isn t. That is why apple didn t feel any motivation to acquire arm itself even if nvidia a company that apple does not get along with was the alternative suitor.

Nvidia confirmed today that the deal.