As we all should know by now, ARM or Advanced RISC Machine is the company that has a monopoly on all Smartphone chipset design.

All Smartphone SoC designs and instruction sets belongs to them. All inclusive, even Apple’s Bionic too. They even have a GPU business too. All Mali GPUs belong to ARM as well.

The Smartphone world today would not exist without the innovations done by ARM. The entire Smartphone SoC industry lies in the palm of their hands.

Others have tried to break into the Smartphone market and failed. Texas instruments tried and failed, Intel also tried to port it’s X86 architecture for mobile too and even licensed it to Unisoc at some point.

They both failed to kick on.

ARM was and still is the best fit for Smartphone mobile computing. ARM designs have gotten so good that Qualcomm and Apple are putting their mobile flagship SoCs on laptops and these laptops are running windows without sweat.

In fact, Apple’s M1 went toe to toe with Intel’s i7 in recent benchmark tests without overheating. The M1 is a modified A14 Bionic.

ARMs SoC design may be the future of computing in general as the powerful X86 architecture of Intel and AMD seems to be on the wane of recent.

The CPU market for desktops and laptops has always been a duopoly dominated by Intel and their X86 architecture with AMD challenging them every step of the way since year 2000 at least.

There is a third company however that has been in the shadows, watching and waiting.

That company is Nvidia.

Nvidia are famous for making GPUs/Graphic cards. Their GPU designs are an industry standard.

They made the term GPU popular.

Nvidia despite their success with GPUs have always wanted a share of the CPU/SoC market.

Unable to challenge Intel and AMD in the early 2010s, they entered into the mobile market with their Tegra SoCs and failed woefully.

Nvidia are back ten years later and they’re after the whole market in general, both PC and Mobile.

They have already signed an agreement with Samsung to supply them GPUs. This means that Samsung will stop using ARM’s Mali GPUs for their Exynos SoCs.

Nvidia now want to buy ARM and take over the entire Smartphone SoC industry, both designs, architecture, instruction sets etc.

With ARM CPUs showing that they can challenge PC CPUs, Nvidia can take over both the desktop and mobile market with one fell swoop.

If you can beat them, buy them.

Qualcomm won’t let that happen though.

They have voiced their opposition to this move from day one and will continue to do so.

This is because no company owns any SoC design, whether it is an ip core design or a custom core design.

The designs belong to ARM.

If ARM sells their business, the new owners may withdraw the licenses and Qualcomm could go out of business.

Not just qualcomm, other companies that depend on ARM designs may be at serious risk.

It’s clear Nvidia wants a monopoly. If that’s the case, anti-competition laws may not allow Nvidia to keep hold of core designs. If they (Nvidia) can’t convince regulators that they will play fair, then the sale won’t go through. China and EU are already looking into it.

If Nvidia are allowed to have a monopoly. It means every other company will go out of business which is not allowed. This would erase competition and drive up the prices of Smartphones.

It was because of monopoly that Ericsson's bid for Nokia’s Telecom arm was blocked. Because Ericsson already acquired Siemens and Nokia acquired Alcatel Lucent. This meant the market will be left with just 4 companies which is bad and Ericsson having far more superior control over Huawei, ZTE and Samsung.

What do you think?

https://inquisitiveuniverse.com/2021/02/14/why-qualcomm-is-opposing-nvidias-takeover-of-arm/

Well if they do I think most gaming phones would shift to Nvidia while most flagship would continue using Snapdragon chipset

Deicide:
Well if they do I think most gaming phones would shift to Navidia while most flagship would continue using Snapdragon chipset

Nvidia may refuse to give Qualcomm core designs. There may be no Snapdragon again.

This is extremely unlikely to happen but if it does mistakenly happen it will be potentially problematic. A company having monopoly over any product has never been a good thing

Nvidia will be a DOMINATOR in the smartphone world.

NVIDIA should leave ARM alone and focus on their GPU business.

Watch how this deal will be stopped by Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung.


By the way ARM is going well, they don't need any help now.

Wetin concern 2face indivia with arm?

Nah that monopoly might happen but the antitrust act prevents them from trying to do anything stupid or force a takeover/fold on other businesses.

Rareoil:
NVIDIA should leave ARM alone and focus on their GPU business.

Watch how this deal will be stopped by Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung.


By the way ARM is going well, they don't need any help now.

SoftBank groups (owners of ARM) are selling cos they aren't making the profits they were expecting, citing they "spent too much money adding this to their portfolio".

Selling will recover their money plus some profits. In other words, it is strictly business.

Qualcomm n Apple (especially Apple cos they're planning on ditching Intel for ARM) might stop the deal but it wouldn't have much weight cos they're both notorious for monopolizing the markets to some extent (semiconductors and mobile markets).
Samsung got a deal with Nvidia, might not say shii.

If this goes through, it would favour Samsung and the exynos chipset more. Nivida can twerk their SOC architecture to be flawless with the nivida GPU on the exynos. Samsung might just be able to rival and surpass bionic is the smartphone market. This is interesting. Although I feel for Snapdragon and mediatek.

Meister:
This is extremely unlikely to happen but if it does mistakenly happen it will be potentially problematic. A company having monopoly over any product has never been a good thing

Expect anything when it comes to money, politics and power.

jizzison:
Nvidia will be a DOMINATOR in the smartphone world.

We don't need a dominator biko. Competition is good for consumers.

End of innovations.

atheistandproud:


We don't need a dominator biko. Competition is good for consumers.

You need to do some research on Nvidia.

They don't love competition, they wanna dominate the competition.

I don't see it working out.
I like your write up. Very lit

KrazyDave16:

You need to do some research on Nvidia.

They don't love competition, they wanna dominate the competition.

Wrong tag.

I know Nvidia want a monopoly. See what they've done to the graphics card market.

BennyDGreat:
I don't see it working out.
I like your write up. Very lit

Thank you

atheistandproud:


Wrong tag.

I know Nvidia want a monopoly. See what they've done to the graphics card market.

RISC-V isn't fully ready to be implemented on the mobile space yet.

KrazyDave16:
RISC-V isn't fully ready to be implemented on the mobile space yet.

hmm...

atheistandproud:


hmm...

On paper it is good but IRL use not enough evidence to support this in the mobile space.

KrazyDave16:

On paper it is good but IRL use not enough evidence to support this in the mobile space.

Good point

The proposed deal would have died by now of Trump were to be president
Doesn't make sense to some and at same time those who know know already

OLUWABIG:
The proposed deal would have died by now of Trump were to be president
Doesn't make sense to some and at same time those who know know already

Lol.

The establishment couldn't control Trump. So they needed to remove him. Biden is a yes man.

wahala for transsion fans..now phone go cost well well

atheistandproud:


We don't need a dominator biko. Competition is good for consumers.

I'm not saying we need a dominator but IF this goes through for Nvidia, then we might as well just live with it.

I really hope not though.

That would be MONOPOLY.

atheistandproud:


Lol.

The establishment couldn't control Trump. So they needed to remove him. Biden is a yes man.

Exactly you understand the game

Topmaike007:
wahala for transsion fans..now phone go cost well well

jizzison:

I'm not saying we need a dominator but IF this goes through for Nvidia, then we might as well just live with it.

I really hope not though.

That would be MONOPOLY.

I sincerely hope not.

If not the cheap and affordable crew go return with their mantra.

atheistandproud:


I sincerely hope not.

If not the cheap and affordable crew go return with their mantra.

Lolz!

CHEAP & AFFORDABLE CREW

This one weak me abeg.

Who be the captain of this kind CREW?

Topmaike007:
wahala for transsion fans..now phone go cost well well

you ehn. Mtch you ehn