You have not given a single strategic imperative for the Nvidia acquisition. They have full access to the IP. The real issue here is Nvidia are hugely overvalued thanks to the vagaries of the US tech stock market and…
That’s exactly what it was - an opportunity to cash in. The other side of this coin is when you have supply shortages and/or a stock mkt run as we now have, some companies end up with huge mkt caps and are able to make…
Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are. They are overvalued and have a huge mkt cap and are looking to make an acquisition as a result. Ultimately, the stock market will decide what Nvidia…
ARM is used across a huge array of end market segments. Granted, none are as big as mobile, but they’re important nonetheless. To say that all ARM SoC vendors are competitors is therefore not strictly true.
This reminds of the analyst who predicted AMD’s acquisition of ATI would kill off Intel. Nothing of the sort happened. If a chip supplier like Nvidia buys ARM and uses its products, it will ultimately have an outsize…
Power consumption is a key application requirement for mobile. I don’t know that GPU’s are designed to run on the smell of an oil rag which the ARM processor cores do.
You’re talking about M&A (market consolidation) and I am talking about the supply and value chain. Two completely different things. The supply/value chain is broken up into little chunks with specialists focusing on a…
You might be right here.
Yeah. Looks like that. :)
The semiconductor supply chain is now almost completely disaggregated ie everyone specialises in just a small part of the value chain. ARM’s speciality is in CPU design and it has carved out for itself the enviable…
You have not given a single strategic imperative for the Nvidia acquisition. They have full access to the IP. The real issue here is Nvidia are hugely overvalued thanks to the vagaries of the US tech stock market and…
That’s exactly what it was - an opportunity to cash in. The other side of this coin is when you have supply shortages and/or a stock mkt run as we now have, some companies end up with huge mkt caps and are able to make…
Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are. They are overvalued and have a huge mkt cap and are looking to make an acquisition as a result. Ultimately, the stock market will decide what Nvidia…
ARM is used across a huge array of end market segments. Granted, none are as big as mobile, but they’re important nonetheless. To say that all ARM SoC vendors are competitors is therefore not strictly true.
This reminds of the analyst who predicted AMD’s acquisition of ATI would kill off Intel. Nothing of the sort happened. If a chip supplier like Nvidia buys ARM and uses its products, it will ultimately have an outsize…
Power consumption is a key application requirement for mobile. I don’t know that GPU’s are designed to run on the smell of an oil rag which the ARM processor cores do.
You’re talking about M&A (market consolidation) and I am talking about the supply and value chain. Two completely different things. The supply/value chain is broken up into little chunks with specialists focusing on a…
You might be right here.
Yeah. Looks like that. :)
The semiconductor supply chain is now almost completely disaggregated ie everyone specialises in just a small part of the value chain. ARM’s speciality is in CPU design and it has carved out for itself the enviable…