A $30B acquihire would be impressive, 100 times more than Amazon paid for Annapurna, the team who built AWS Graviton server CPU on top of Arm's reference design. If the HR department is having so much trouble hiring Arm engineers that Nvidia needs to pay 30 billion dollars to hire a CPU design team, something's wrong. Nvidia already has CPU design teams, e.g. they made a 2014 Transmeta-like design.
> .. this chip is fascinating. NVIDIA has taken the parts of Transmeta's initial approach that made sense and adopted them for the modern market and the ARM ecosystem -- while pairing them with the excellent GPU performance of Tegra K1's Kepler-based solution.
> there’s an interesting theory ... that Denver is actually a reincarnation of Nvidia’s plans to build an x86 CPU, which was ongoing in the mid-2000s but never made it to market. To get around x86 licensing issues, Nvidia’s chip would essentially use a software abstraction layer to catch incoming x86 machine code (from the operating system and your apps) and convert/morph it into instructions that can be understood by the underlying hardware.
Which other Arm licensee has been talking about x86/Arm instruction morphing in 2020?
If the goal of acqui-billion-hiring the Arm reference design team is to prevent other companies from using those designs, that would endanger smaller vendors in the Arm supply chain, along with many of the devices that run modern society. Regulators may not like that.
https://hothardware.com/news/nvidias-64bit-tegra-k1-the-ghos...
> .. this chip is fascinating. NVIDIA has taken the parts of Transmeta's initial approach that made sense and adopted them for the modern market and the ARM ecosystem -- while pairing them with the excellent GPU performance of Tegra K1's Kepler-based solution.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/174023-tegra-k1-64-bit...
> there’s an interesting theory ... that Denver is actually a reincarnation of Nvidia’s plans to build an x86 CPU, which was ongoing in the mid-2000s but never made it to market. To get around x86 licensing issues, Nvidia’s chip would essentially use a software abstraction layer to catch incoming x86 machine code (from the operating system and your apps) and convert/morph it into instructions that can be understood by the underlying hardware.
Which other Arm licensee has been talking about x86/Arm instruction morphing in 2020?
If the goal of acqui-billion-hiring the Arm reference design team is to prevent other companies from using those designs, that would endanger smaller vendors in the Arm supply chain, along with many of the devices that run modern society. Regulators may not like that.