arm Arm exec says 'firewalls' will protect customer info after Nvidia deal

[Mistio]

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If Nvidia Corp NVDA.O buys Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group Corp 9984.T, Arm will keep "firewalls" in place to ensure the data center chip company does not access confidential information from Arm's customers or get early access to Arm's products, a top Arm executive told Reuters on Tuesday.

 

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Edited October 8, 2020 by axipher

[Darkpriest667]

Part of the reason to buy a company is to acquire their customer information. The ARM executive can say whatever he/she wants. As soon as NVDA owns ARM they'll sack most of the executives, put in their own people, and they'll legally own the information unless specifics of the purchase are the information is kept private in which case I believe it would have to be destroyed. 

Edited October 8, 2020 by Darkpriest667

[BucDan]

Man, I'm not liking the idea of Nvidia owning ARM. I can feel that they'll keep the special designs to themselves, give out the design for the 1 model lower every cycle. 

 

Would it be wrong if Nvidia develops their own special instruction set that only favors their chips that include Nvidia's GPU technologies? Likely.

 

I can see the move to RISC-V happening for the industry. 

[ENTERPRISE]

4 hours ago, Darkpriest667 said:

Part of the reason to buy a company is to acquire their customer information. The ARM executive can say whatever he/she wants. As soon as NVDA owns ARM they'll sack most of the executives, put in their own people, and they'll legally own the information unless specifics of the purchase are the information is kept private in which case I believe it would have to be destroyed. 

This in most cases is exactly what happens  

[wholeeo]

What's he smoking, "firewalls", lol.

[steakikan]

Hope this pushes Risc-V forward, I don't think the compatibility layers between the 2 will be hard.