NVIDIA's abandonment of the acquisition of ARM is considerable news in the semiconductor industry in recent days, and although the $66 billion is not as good as Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the two have different meanings. The reason for the global opposition is also worried about NVIDIA's monopoly position in the chip field.
In the one-and-a-half year of the acquisition of ARM, NVIDIA's market value increased from 300 billion to more than $600 billion, becoming the largest semiconductor company in the United States by market capitalization, and its strength has increased significantly, and the $1.25 billion in default fees compensated to ARM is only a dime.
After the failure of this acquisition, NVIDIA founder and CEO Huang Jenxun also told the media that even if it did not acquire ARM, NVIDIA could realize all the company's hopes and dreams without ARM.
Huang Jenxun did not know what NVIDIA will do next, but one thing can be determined, NVIDIA will continue to support the ARM architecture, last year's GTC conference launched a self-developed 5nm process ARM architecture high-performance processor "Grace", based on the ARM Neoverse architecture, with LPDDR5X memory bandwidth of more than 500GB/s, support ECC, through the NVLink bus to connect their own GPU, bandwidth of more than 900GB/s, The bandwidth between two CPUs at the same time exceeds 600GB/s.
The NVIDIA Grace processor will be officially launched in 2023, and is working with Europe to create the world's fastest AI supercomputing "ALPS" (Alps), with a computing power of up to 20ExaFlops (200 billion billion calculations per second).
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