[ad_1]
According to media reports, one of the biggest names in the smartphone industry, chip designer ARM, is about to be taken over by graphics card specialist NVIDIA.
The purchase price should exceed 40,000 million dollars, the agreement could be announced in the next few days, reported the “Wall Street Journal”, the “New York Times” and the “Financial Times” this weekend. The current owner, Japanese tech group Softbank, paid $ 32 billion for the British company four years ago.
The basic architecture of the chips, which are used in almost all smartphones and in the vast majority of tablets, comes from ARM. Based on the ARM designs, Apple and Samsung, among others, develop the processors for their smartphones. Also the chip company Qualcomm, whose processors are in many AndroidPhones plugged in, turn to him.
NVIDIA grew up with PC graphics cards, but a few years ago it turned out that the company’s technology can be used very well for machine learning and artificial intelligence. That gave NVIDIA’s business a new boost. The company is now also developing computers for driver assistance systems in cars and autonomous driving.
/ so / DP / fba
NEW YORK (awp international)
