Four years after buying ARM (British company) for 32.000 million dollars, the Japanese giant Softbank has just confirmed the sale of ARM to the American company NVIDIA for 40.000 million dollars As speculated in recent weeks, a purchase that has to be approved by regulators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.
Processors that use the ARM architecture are designed to require fewer processors than X86 processors, being their reduced consumption and cost its main advantages and that have allowed them to become the processors used in most battery-managed devices.
Major ARM processor manufacturers such as Apple, Qualcomm and Samsung (Huawei can no longer design its own ARM-based processors) license ARM technology to design and manufacture your own processors. NVIDIA's purchase of ARM will not affect, at least it should not, all manufacturers of processors based on this architecture and to make sure of this, there are the regulatory authorities who have to give the go-ahead to the purchase.
NVIDIA has become in recent years the king of the graphics card market, a field that seems to be getting small and now wants to enter the world of smartphones or at least that is the impression that the announcement of this offers us. purchase. This type of processors, although they are widely used today, andn the next few years its use will increase, especially in laptops, where it is increasingly common to see this type of processors.
In fact, Apple announced last June the transition from Intel to ARM processors in all its equipment, a move that some companies had already begun to make due to the high performance and low consumption offered by this type of architecture. However, there are still a few years left, for this type of processors to be available in all portable computers that reach the market.