Nvidia On Arm
Nvidia s 40 billion acquisition of arm is a hugely significant deal for the tech world with implications that will take years to unravel spanning many areas of the sector.
Nvidia on arm. Expanding support for arm developers. Nvidia and softbank group corp. Nvidia s accelerated computing platform is used to help solve the world s most challenging computational problems. The co founder of arm has said that if the government does not stop the 40bn 31bn takeover of the british chip designer its proposed buyer nvidia will become the next us tech monopoly.
The cuda toolkit for arm provides a development environment for creating high performance gpu accelerated applications on the arm server platform. Today nvidia gpus not only power some of the world s largest supercomputers and cloud data centers. The toolkit includes gpu accelerated libraries debugging and optimization tools a c c compiler and the cuda runtime. With the cuda toolkit you can develop optimize and deploy your applications on gpu accelerated arm systems.
Nvidia will initially pay softbank 12 billion in cash and 21 5 billion in nvidia shares with further cash or stock up to 5 billion to be paid going forward under an earn out. Unites nvidia s leadership in artificial intelligence with arm s vast computing ecosystem to drive innovation for all customers. Nvidia is most closely associated with its successful graphics cards but its rumored acquisition of arm has the potential to take it beyond just gpus arm s processor architecture could allow. 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.
Sbg today announced a definitive agreement under which nvidia will acquire arm limited from sbg and the softbank vision fund together softbank in a transaction valued at 40 billion. The conference made a great pivot and had a fireside chat with the ceo of arm simon segars and jensen huang the ceo of nvidia. They also power edge devices across industries. But if you listened.