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Nvidia is reportedly in 'advanced talks' to buy ARM for more than $32 billion
SoftBank has been rumored to be exploring a sale of ARM — the British chip designer that powers nearly every major mobile processor from companies like Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, and Huawei — and now, it might have found a buyer. Nvidia is reportedly in "advanced talks" to buy ARM in a deal worth over $32 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Nvidia is said to be the only company that's involved in concrete discussions with SoftBank for the purchase at this time, and a deal could arrive "in the next few weeks," although nothing is finalized yet. If the deal does go through, it would be one of the largest deals ever in the computer chip business and would likely draw intense regulatory scrutiny.
Previously:
(2020-07-12) Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors
(2020-07-11) Nvidia's Market Cap Rises Above Intel's
(2020-06-11) ARM Faces a Boardroom Revolt as it Seeks to Remove the CEO of Its Chinese Joint Venture
(2019-10-29) Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @05:35PM (1 child)
btw by "coherent" i mean like 50Hz are coherent in the grid. absent and ac-2-dc-2-ac converters the grid is rising and falling in lock step across the grid. so 50 Hz peak in rome/italy is at the exact same time as in berlin or paris .. lol.
you could (be warned, continue reading might give you a headache) imagine a virtual plane denoting the current instantenous voltage on the grid slamming down and rising up, cutting thru the whole eurpean continent AT THE SAME TIME... 50 times per second O_o"
(Score: 3, Informative) by Rupert Pupnick on Monday August 03 2020, @12:54AM
Actually keeping tight timing synchronization is much easier in a processor complex where delay variations are held to reasonably tight tolerances compared to the power grid which contains many more interfaces, sources, and especially loads that can vary widely in the course of 24 hours.
Also, wave propagation speeds are much slower through the power network compared to free space.