Makes sense from a financial standpoint too since game devs are known to be passionate enough to accept lower salaries if they can work on cool stuff. Not necessarily knocking it (not my preference), but it matches exactly what I hear from people that work there. The recruiters even say the pay is low, but you'll have "SpaceX" on your resume so it's worth it.
This makes no sense. nVidia is already transitioning away from ARM and shipping RISC-V controllers in their GPUs. They already gave up on Denver, their high perf ARM server chip. Why would they buy ARM?
Pure uneducated guesses from me: maybe the reason for giving up on Denver would no longer be a reason if they owed ARM. Or maybe they see a future use of ARM's tech that will either benefit them to own, or that scares them that ARM competition (or competition from other companies working with ARM) in a current or future area. Or just that they believe ARM is a solid business that will make money whoever owns it.
But I don't have a clue if it's a good idea or not.
They're using RISC-V for their micro controllers. I don't think we have any reason to believe they won't stick with ARM for application cores. And they've tended to ping-pong between Denver cores and standard ARM cores so I wouldn't entirely write Denver off.
Controlling the ARM holdings the company is very different value prop than a single arm chip .
When they made those decisions ARM wasn’t available for buying, SoftBank was ok top of the world didn’t have to sell anything . A year back do you think SoftBank would consider a proposal so close to their purchase price ?
