Nvidia to buy rival chipmaker Arm from Softbank for $40B

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Nvidia to buy rival chipmaker Arm from Softbank for $40B

Computer graphics chip company Nvidia said it plans to buy Britain's Arm Holdings for $40 billion, in a merger of two leading chipmakers.

Computer graphics chip company Nvidia said it plans to buy Britain's Arm Holdings for $40 billion, in a merger of two leading chipmakers.

Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia and Arm's parent company, Japanese technology giant SoftBank, announced the deal Sunday.

Nvidia is best known for its graphics processing chips, while Arm is renowned as an innovator in the "Internet of Things" — its technology is used in the vast majority of smartphones, for example. Arm centers its business on intellectual property, especially in mobile computing, rather than chip manufacturing, for which it relies on partners.

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SoftBank bought Arm for about $32 billion in 2016 in a move aimed at the Japanese company's ambitions in advancing how various devices, including security cameras and household appliances, connect online and work together.

Well.
 
Fuck.
NVIDIA is notable for walling off resources worse than Intel.
It is known to withhold data so that Linux drivers for NVIDIA are not optimized well.
I guess it is RISCV time now.
 
Yeah this isnt great news. Maybe we will get lucky and the uk government blocks it, but ahahahaha. We should have expected something like this to happen but nvidia getting it is really the worst case.
 
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