NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion

Ne1l

2020-09-14 18:45

H83:

Yes i´m aware of that but Softbank was neutral or close to it unlike an american company. And despite the UK not being part of the EU, that doens´t matter anyway because the EU should find a way to simply buy ARM instead of Nvidia. They could easily print some more monopoly money to do it. This leaves the EU complety dependent of the US for crucial tech and that os not good.

I think you may have missed this bit of news... https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/first-steps-towards-a-made-in-europe-high-performance-microprocessor/ If anything you should be banging the drum of RISC-V adoption... if the EU bought ARM and then Macron called out Trump on being a self-serving narrow-minded silver-spooned idiot.. he would probably ban ARM in the US ;-)

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H83

2020-09-14 22:35

Ne1l:

I think you may have missed this bit of news... https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/first-steps-towards-a-made-in-europe-high-performance-microprocessor/ If anything you should be banging the drum of RISC-V adoption... if the EU bought ARM and then Macron called out Trump on being a self-serving narrow-minded silver-spooned idiot.. he would probably ban ARM in the US ;-)

Yes, i missed this one, thanks for the heads up! Still, i think buying ARM would be preferable due to it´s importance but this i better than nothing. Let´s see how this pans out.

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Dribble

2020-09-15 11:23

Kaarme:

Yeah, I imagine the USA and EU will actually allow it, but probably with some conditions. The UK government already had some conditions in place originally. That being said, I expect Nvidia will honour the conditions for a few years, but after that it's anyone's guess. Since Nvidia is an American company, the US government might even feel like this is a good thing. If Nvidia shuts down operations in the UK some years from now and moves them to the USA, any American govenment would consider it a good thing, again. At that point the UK would no more have anything to do with the EU, so the EU probably couldn't do anything about it. The UK might slap Nvidia with a fine of billions of pounds, which Nvidia would challenge in the court for half a decade, easy. In the mean time Nvidia would have earned far more billions through owning ARM and all of its patents. That's just how it goes.

The reason ARM is successful is the due to the people that design it. They live in Britain, if you abandon the UK you loose the talent which is one of the major reasons for buying the company in the first place. Oh and those people will just get snapped up by a competitor who will magically open an office next door if they hear ARM is firing, and that talent will then go into your competitors products.

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