It just means that Apple will have to pay Nvidia for the Arm license they already have. The contracts were signed and finished years ago. Nvidia will have to honor them. Just like Disney has to honor the Marvel characters at Universal Florida - Disney owns them now but Universal mad the deal with Marvel long before hand. So they get to keep them on Property (Avengers only, in Florida) in perpetuity.
Mark
On 9/14/2020 9:37 AM, Philip Hodgetts wrote:
Apple design and (contract) manufacture their own silicon based on ARM reference designs they license. I don't think the purchase of ARM by Nvidia will have any affect at all.
Philip
On Sep 13, 2020, at 7:20 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
Just saw Nvidia has acquired ARM. I wonder how this might effect nVidia/cuda GPU compatibility. I read ARM are faster in phones and Mac is switching it's processor over to ARM from Intel. I'm not versed in the subtleties of how ARM processors effect the rest of the processing food chain. Could this move in any way revive CUDA/nVidia GPU life spans. I would think not but perhaps more under the hood savvy might be able to shed some light on this.
I do find it interesting that it seemed like Mac and nVidia were at odds of late. Does nVidia acquiring ARM mean they are on the mend and maybe my nVidia GPU Cuda cards won't have to sleep on the couch anymore? ;-)
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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