Nvidia acquisition of ARM is good for Nvidia
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Thursday, 17 September 2020 21:09

Nvidia acquisition of ARM is good for Nvidia


Analysis: Bad for everyone else

Nvidia will take over ARM, at least it has announced its intention and the market and the stock skyrocketed, demonstrating that this looks like it is an excellent move for Nvidia. Still, a semiconductor company taking over what used to be an independent API provider doesn't resonate well.

Nvidia-ARM takeover a big win for Jensen Huang
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:21

Nvidia-ARM takeover a big win for Jensen Huang


Provided it's quarantined

Semiconductor analyst Malcolm Penn told Fudzilla today that if Nvidia plays its cards right with the ARM acquisition, people would be thinking in 10 years' time what a bargain the $40 billion buy was.

Save ARM campaign starts
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:05

Save ARM campaign starts

ARM sold to Nvidia for $40 billion
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Monday, 14 September 2020 11:10

ARM sold to Nvidia for $40 billion


Formal announcement expected today

SoftBank is set to sell the UK's Arm to US outfit Nvidia for more than $40 billion.

ARM releases 64 bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R
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Monday, 07 September 2020 12:17

ARM releases 64 bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R


It is just for storage so still a bit snoozy

ARM has announced its first 64 bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor, which it has earmarked for computational storage solutions.

It's in Nvidia’s interest to crush ARM like a bug
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Worth more dead than alive

ARM co-founder Hermann Hauser has warned that it is in Nvidia’s interest to destroy the company he co-founded.

SoftBank needs to sell ARM because it over invested
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An Nvidia sale will stuff everything up

Co-founder and ex-president of ARM Holdings, Tudor Brown says that SoftBank's projected sale of the chip company to Nvidia is the result of a bungled business strategy that saw the fund throw too much money at ARM and prioritize the wrong business areas.

Nuvia Phoenix CPU is faster than all its ARM X86 competition
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Datacenter power/performance leadership

We have reported that a hot new chip startup founded by ex-Apple and ex-Google engineer rock stars, got funded in the first round of financing with $53 million. Now, Nuvia is ready to share some preliminary performance and power numbers. Both power and performance are beating every mobile and server CPU core that exists on the market.

UK should buy ARM
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Monday, 10 August 2020 12:13

UK should buy ARM


That is what Brexit was all about not the NHS

With SoftBank's Masayoshi Son trying to sell ARM, a columnist for the Observer newspaper claims that the UK company was  "a kind of public-interest commercial company” which its government should buy.

ARM China conflict escalates
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Monday, 03 August 2020 10:10

ARM China conflict escalates


Chinese government might need to become involved

ARM's conflict with its Chinese subsidiuary is getting out of hand, and might require intervention from the Chinese government.