Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: The failed acquisition of Arm does not affect Nvidia’s strategic direction
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VentureBeat: What is your post-Arm strategy? Do you have to communicate your strategic direction in light of [the Arm deal being called off]?
Jensen Huang: Not really anything. Because we never finished combining with Arm. So any strategies that would have come from the combination were never talked about. And so our strategy is exactly the same. We do accelerated computing for wherever there are CPUs (central processing units) . And so we’ll do that for x86. And we’ll do we do that for Arm. We have a whole bunch of ARM CPUs, and system-on-chips (SoCs) in development. And we’re enthusiasts. We do all that. We have a 20-year license to Arm’s intellectual property. And we’ll continue to take advantage of all that and all the markets. And that’s about it. Keep building CPUs, GPUs (graphics processing units), and DPUs (data processing units).
VB: So it’s your three-chip strategy? Would you consider RISC-V now that the Arm deal is not happening?
Huang: We use RISC-V. We’re RISC-V users inside our GPUs. We use it in several areas. For system controllers, inside the Bluefield GPU, there is a RISC-V acceleration engine, if you will, a programmable engine. And we use RISC-V when it makes sense. We use Arm when it makes sense. We use x86 when it makes sense.
Although in Jensen Huang’s view, the failure to acquire Arm has not changed anything, and there is no need to worry too much about the future, there is still very close cooperation between the two parties, but it does mean that any possibility of shaping Arm’s architectural roadmap in their own way is lost.
