Interesting ARM possible Acquisition

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Hmmm… if indeed Nvidia acquires ARM… could be bad news for Apple (and other using ARM).
I’ll bet Apple is holding his breath for this.

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  1. Apple had ARM shares thirty years ago (around 1990-1995).

  2. They’d better buy it for themselves when on sale (month ago) at first, if this is critical to them.

I suppose this is not critical to them.

AFAI Understand, the ARM company draw CPUs and sold them to anyone who want to use them. I think Apple’s experience is strong enough to eventually do the whole work by themselves now.

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Apple has a lifetime license to use the ARM ISA, as they were one of the founders of ARM.

Funny enough the first ARM chip Apple used was the StrongARM… made by Intel.

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That’s correct. Apple has nothing to be concerned about if Nvidia acquires ARM. They only license the instruction set, and it’s a lifetime license.

The processors in iOS and M1 devices are custom silicon that Apple designs themselves; and the manufacturing is outsourced to TSMC.