What if instead of buying ARM, they put $40 billion into developing RISC V?
$40 billion is a huge amount of money. They could find the world's top ten chip designers and offer them $1 billion each in cash to come up with a new superior CPU design, and still have $30 billion left over to pay their minions.
Why not $1 Billion into SPARC? It's still unclear to me why after successfully delivering the 5 Ghz, 8 core, 256 thread, SPARC M8, Oracle wasn't able to at least sell its Microelectronics group for a nominal sum. Toss in the Server group as an added incentive for free.
Why not $40 billion into RISC V ? (Score:5, Interesting)
What if instead of buying ARM, they put $40 billion into developing RISC V?
$40 billion is a huge amount of money. They could find the world's top ten chip designers and offer them $1 billion each in cash to come up with a new superior CPU design, and still have $30 billion left over to pay their minions.
Re:Why not $40B into RISC V ? (Score:2)