[senttoschool]

Why would Apple ever want to own ARM? Their internal CPU design team is years ahead of the ARM team. Apple has an architectural license and doesn't care about ARM core designs.

Quite honestly, ARM falling on its face hard is actually a benefit to Apple. That would mean that Apple Silicon and iPhone SoCs have less competition. Imagine if Qualcomm chips based on ARM designs are 5 years behind instead of the 2-3 years now.

But the Nvidia + ARM combo made sense from a technical and strategic standpoint though.

[klelatti]

> But the Nvidia + ARM combo made sense from a technical and strategic standpoint though.

Made sense for Nvidia. Not for other Arm customers.

[justin66]

...because seriously, how many of those customers could ever possibly want to use Nvidia's graphics or AI silicon? That stuff is never going to fly.

[Vogtinator]

> Their internal CPU design team is years ahead of the ARM team.

Was. They're now at Qualcomm.

[orlp]

> Why would Apple ever want to own ARM?

You answered your own question:

> Quite honestly, ARM falling on its face hard is actually a benefit to Apple. That would mean that Apple Silicon and iPhone SoCs have less competition.

[senttoschool]

No I didn't answer my own question because a hostile takeover of ARM can cost $70b and it doesn't guarantee that ARM would fall on its face after the acquisition because it has long-term contracts.

[orlp]

> a hostile takeover of ARM can cost $70b

Sure, but the question was "why would Apple want to own ARM", not "is it worth the cost?"

> it doesn't guarantee that ARM would fall on its face after the acquisition because it has long-term contracts

Having full control of the company would guarantee that as much as any other method could by a mirroring argument, as far as I can see.

[senttoschool]

Sure, what other imaginary ways for Apple to destroy the competition do you have? Maybe buy Samsung and destroy the Galaxy brand? Buy Google and destroy Android?

Let us know what other genius ways you can think of.