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.
What if instead of buying ARM, they put $40 billion into developing RISC V?
Actually, NVidia is already using internally developed RISC-V cores in their GPU's. These cores aren't exposed to the outside world, but they're integral to the internal functioning of the GPU. People from NVidia have publicly presented this work at RISC-V events over the last few years. Here's a recent example: https://youtu.be/7Lx3692cbAg [youtu.be].
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 $40 billion into RISC V ? (Score:4, Interesting)
What if instead of buying ARM, they put $40 billion into developing RISC V?
Actually, NVidia is already using internally developed RISC-V cores in their GPU's. These cores aren't exposed to the outside world, but they're integral to the internal functioning of the GPU. People from NVidia have publicly presented this work at RISC-V events over the last few years. Here's a recent example: https://youtu.be/7Lx3692cbAg [youtu.be].