• Nvidia nears deal to buy chip designer Arm for more than $40 billion, s

    From OSnews@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 13 00:32:14 2020
    Nvidia Corp is close to a deal to buy British chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group Corp for more than $40 billion in a deal which would create a giant in the chip industry, according to two people familiar with the matter.
    A cash and stock deal for Arm could be announced as early as next week, the sources said.

    That will create one hell of a giant chip company, but at the same time - what alternatives are there? ARM on its own probably won';t make it, SoftBank has no clue what to do with ARM, and any of the other major players - Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft
    - would be even worse, since they all have platforms to lock you into, and ARM would be a great asset in that struggle. At least NVIDIA just wants to sell as many chips to as many people as possible, and isn';t that interested in locking you into a
    platform.

    That being said - who knows? Often, the downsides to deals like this don';t come out until years later. We';ll just have to wait and see.

    https://www.osnews.com/story/132340/nvidia-nears-deal-to-buy-chip-designer-arm-for-more-than-40-billion-sources-say/

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  • From OSnews@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 14 01:25:24 2020
    Update: it';s official now - NVIDIA is buying ARM.

    Original story:

    Nvidia Corp is close to a deal to buy British chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group Corp for more than $40 billion in a deal which would create a giant in the chip industry, according to two people familiar with the matter.
    A cash and stock deal for Arm could be announced as early as next week, the sources said.

    That will create one hell of a giant chip company, but at the same time - what alternatives are there? ARM on its own probably won';t make it, SoftBank has no clue what to do with ARM, and any of the other major players - Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft
    - would be even worse, since they all have platforms to lock you into, and ARM would be a great asset in that struggle. At least NVIDIA just wants to sell as many chips to as many people as possible, and isn';t that interested in locking you into a
    platform.

    That being said - who knows? Often, the downsides to deals like this don';t come out until years later. We';ll just have to wait and see.

    https://www.osnews.com/story/132340/nvidia-nears-deal-to-buy-chip-designer-arm-for-more-than-40-billion-sources-say/

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