Quote from: Anonymousgg on September 04, 2021, 14:18:21It looks like Nvidia's acquisition could be blocked anyway, but if it isn't, there will be limitations in place to appease the regulators.

Unfortunately, such limitations aren't necessarily enforced. There have been quite a few cases of companies being allowed to merge or do something under certain conditions/requirements, only to ignore them after the fact without consequence.

Quote from: Hardware Geek on September 03, 2021, 22:17:42
I can't blame them. At the very least, Nvidia owning arm would mean they have much earlier access to new IP, which would hurt competition. That said, I expect they would change the pricing and terms so drastically that the competition would be priced out of the market. Apple would be wise to be ready to shift to risk v at any moment.

Apple has continuously outpaced ARM in designing ARM cores, so early IP doesn't matter. There's no evidence that Nvidia would balloon the licensing fees, which are low in the first place. It looks like Nvidia's acquisition could be blocked anyway, but if it isn't, there will be limitations in place to appease the regulators.

Apple can put RISC-V based accelerators and ARM cores in the same chip.

I can't blame them. At the very least, Nvidia owning arm would mean they have much earlier access to new IP, which would hurt competition. That said, I expect they would change the pricing and terms so drastically that the competition would be priced out of the market. Apple would be wise to be ready to shift to risk v at any moment.