News Amazon, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and Samsung to Back Arm's IPO

[Admin]

High-tech giants in talks to become anchor investors in Arm's upcoming IPO.

Amazon, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and Samsung to Back Arm's IPO : Read more

 

[wbfox]

But all those companies are supposed to make only RISC-V?!!!!!? How will human rights violators get new hardware if no one pays for the software?
The thing no one saw coming- they would all go in on buying ARM and then not charge themselves the fees (or at least get it all back and then some) and not design an entire new set of processors and software to go with it all.

 

[ekio]

All these dollars to buy something that in a few years will be less good than free RISC-V....

(the RISC-V specification is actually better then ARM's one, the only thing that makes ARM dominate today is the more mature software ecosystem -that'll change soon- and existing products history, that's it).

 

[OriginFree]

All these dollars to buy something that in a few years will be less good than free RISC-V....

(the RISC-V specification is actually better then ARM's one, the only thing that makes ARM dominate today is the more mature software ecosystem -that'll change soon- and existing products history, that's it).

Well, software ecosystem, actual hardware physically existing in mass production, global R&D for main product lines, and not just as a "We also do that" ISA, global market share, huge amount of sales, massive installed user base, a large number of engineers actually working on end product design and of course RISC-V is all but a paper spec with few actual products while ARM has decades of actual hardware and design evolution.

So ya, RISC-V may be better on paper for certain applications but so was ALPHA, SPARC, MIPS, Power PC, etc. and where are they now?