It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40B To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut 📦

23    13 Sep 2020 23:36 by u/Lukginzis

This is so huge. I do not think any of us can realize what a shift this could cause in the computing industry.

11 comments

11 u/lordnazgul 14 Sep 2020 00:39
NVIDIA is extremely unfriendly to open-source software. This isn't good for the future of open-source AI, and it concerns me about the future of licensing for projects like Raspberry Pi. I just hope NVIDIA is after royalty-free use of ARM hardware and not consuming it.
3 u/DaGov 14 Sep 2020 02:15
Those would be great comments for the record when the antitrust evaluation inevitably occurs.
7 u/SneeringImperialist 14 Sep 2020 03:35
>NVIDIA is extremely unfriendly to open-source software. Not really thrilled about the acquisition for this exact reason. I'm really not a fan of how much the tech-related industries, specifically computing, has centralized in the past 30 or so years.
2 u/_Ajax 14 Sep 2020 05:29
I bet they will continue to license ARM as before because otherwise it will just incentivise RISC-V/MIPS/etc. competition.
2 u/NitroglycerinLtd 14 Sep 2020 14:32
Not just royalty-free use, they also will receive the ARM royalties now. They're looking to a decade hence when x64 will be something taught in comp-sci in a merely historical sense.
1 u/lordnazgul 14 Sep 2020 14:41
Here's to hoping RISC-V is able to compete in that market-space in the next decade.
4 u/drBonkers 14 Sep 2020 00:16
Jesus wtf I didn’t even know they were pursuing it. They’re the next intel now. Hope AMD’s Metal catches up with CUDA soon.
3 u/lordnazgul 14 Sep 2020 03:09
NVIDIA is no Intel. NVIDIA has been petal to the metal for over a decade. Unless there's some kind of miracle, I strongly doubt AMD will be competitive in the AI GPU market. And I say this as an admitted AMD fanboy.
1 u/drBonkers 14 Sep 2020 06:32
First point is fair point. Do you have any insight on to why AMD doesn't develop Metal like NVIDIA has CUDA? A lot of the "holy grail of HPC" applications (like Julia or other CPU-GPU interoperability platforms) seem to only work with CUDA from my intermediate experience.
1 u/NitroglycerinLtd 14 Sep 2020 14:29
I wonder if they have not been bought already because of the open RISC-V platform as a factor keeping ARM honest? If they throw their muscle around like Intel or IBM did, they can be sidelined without horrendous cost.
1 u/None 15 Sep 2020 08:10
https://savearm.co.uk/ British petition/open letter requesting the PM/Parliament to intervene