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Nobody likes working with Nvidia, and nobody trusts Nvidia to continue licensing ARM designs and patents under the same generous licensing terms that ARM was. There's several different ARM licensees that make their own designs or repackage ARM designs in custom SoCs. Nvidia would materially benefit from, say, refusing to license designs and patents to competing silicon vendors. It would take Tegra from "that thing the Switch uses" to the only option available for smartphone vendors.

You know how everyone hates Qualcomm because they more or less pushed every other SoC vendor out of the market with aggressive patent licensing terms? Imagine that but worse.



Doing that doesn't hurt majority of the current licensees, only smaller ones.

Making Tegra competing with say Mediatek doesn't gain Nvidia much.

Stop Licensing ARM would put $40 Billion down the drain. ( Arguably it is only $12 Billion cash with stocks )

I also dont see Nintendo have problem working with Nvidia.

That doesn't mean Nvidia is good or bad. I just dont see how Nvidia's interest, ARM Interest, and most people ( including on HN ) 's interest align.


Can you please elaborate on who your "nobody" actually is?

Because the amount of partnerships nVidia has kinda makes your point suspect.




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