Nvidia Arm Hacker News

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Nvidia arm hacker news. Softbank bought arm for about 32 billion in 2016 in an effort to cement the japanese company s ambitions in advancing how various devices including security cameras and household appliances connect online and work together. Nvidia is also one of arm s clients using its designs to create its line up of tegra central processing units cpus. Unites nvidia s leadership in artificial intelligence with arm s vast computing ecosystem to drive innovation for all customers. Huawei china firms said to.

But with this deal the company affirmed in one of their statement that they would pay softbank 21 5 billion in current stock and 12 billion in cash in which nvidia will pay 2 billion at the time of signing. Nvidia will expand arm s r d presence in cambridge uk by establishing a world class ai research and education center and building an arm nvidia powered ai supercomputer for groundbreaking research. Softbank could earn a further 5 billion if arm hits performance targets while arm employees will get 1 5 billion worth of nvidia shares. October 20 2020 11 30 pm edt updated on october 21 2020 2 07 am edt 5 02.

Huawei china firms said to seek curbs on nvidia s arm deal bloomberg news. Under the terms of the deal nvidia will pay softbank 21 5bn in its own. If nvidia can sell geforce like arm sells mali and leave the arm ecosystem truly intact i don t think many will lament the demise of mali although i expect some counterviews for this on hn. Nvidia takes arm off softbanks hands in 40b deal.

But argues that nvidia and arm operate on completely different business. Having geforce be a commanding presence in the arm ecosystem might be a big problem for the future diversity of gpu vendors though but that s something i m interested in seeing play out at least. So none of this makes sense to me except if nvidia would want to license gpus with arm cores to iot and low power devices like arm does but that sounds extremely far fetched because nvidia is super far away from a product there and also because the margins for those products are very very thin and nvidia tends to like 40 60 margins.