ARM

The cloud provider’s benchmark data compares Ampere’s Arm chips with AMD Rome and Milan and Intel Skylake.

Government approval in China and elsewhere may come later this year or in 2022, Jensen Huang said.

Whatever doubts still linger about Arm's future in the data center, they are quickly dissipating.

Confidential computing in Armv9, called Arm CCA, builds on TrustZone secure enclave technology in mobile chips.

The new designs aim at AI workloads and offer extra security features.

The groundswell of opposition may make it difficult to win approval, delay the process or force concessions that change the value of Arm to Nvidia.

The cloud giant adds to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance on Intel's chip technology.