ARM

Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell are Arm's first customers to publicly support the takeover.

The system-on-a-chip maker had been scoring points on scalability and performance, with its Neoverse N1-based Altra series. If Altra truly is a Xeon-slayer, why take it out of the fight?

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.

“We want to support our thriving UK tech industry and welcome foreign investment, but it is appropriate that we properly consider the national security implications of a transaction like this.”

Tightly integrated with Nvidia GPUs, the company’s first CPU is meant for the near future when AI models reach trillions of parameters.

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