Nvidia Arm Risc V

Nvidia arm deal a boon for risc v.

Nvidia arm risc v. Unlike many other instruction sets the risc v instruction set is open source with license fees and royalties available at no cost. As the embedded industry digests the implications of the proposed acquisition of arm by nvidia while the big licensees have so far remained tight lipped in talking publicly about their thoughts risc v international the organization supporting the adoption of risc v has been quick to highlight the options ahead. I should add risc v s limitation isn t technical but more related to building an ecosystem to match arm s. Nvidia will be the end of arm if the deal completes risc v is the winner.

One of the alternatives is risc v a rival. If it doesn t happen arm is likely in deep trouble for all the same reasons. They are very different things. One of the alternatives is risc v a rival architecture that is royalty free and open.

We are enthusiastic users of both arm and risc v. Is this arm s signature low power ip. Given the recent surge in semiconductor industry growth up more than 23 percent from the same period last year the chip sector likely has room for competing arm based and risc v chip architectures. Risc v an open microprocessor architecture alternative has recently gained traction.

Nvidia and arm promised the arm architecture would continue to be available for licensing but you could see other players looking for a backup plan. There is potential in this time frame perhaps five to 10 years for risc v to become more feasible in these chips as the main processor and that could cause arm nvidia problems. We use risc v internally all over our large chips and we will continue to do that. Nvidia and arm promised the arm architecture would continue to be available for licensing but you could see other players looking for a backup plan.

By kim mcmahon october 23 2020 october 25th 2020 no comments as regulators in the u s china and the european union begin scrutinizing the impact of the blockbuster deal on semiconductor industry competition and innovation the deal has at the very least shown a light of the open source risc v architecture and its growing ecosystem. We ve been growing so fast over the last five years that we re not noticing a significant swing at any one of these inflection points across the industry redmond told protocol. Would a combined nvidia arm continue to develop arm s mali graphics processor architecture and continue to use the risc v processor architecture huang was quick with his answer. Which new arm ip will nvidia be using.