Nvidia's ownership of ARM could drive customers to RISC-V, says Xilinx CEO.

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www.zdnet.com, May. 18, 2021 – 

"If it gets approved and they're [ARM] not a pure-play IP company, I mean, you can count on there'll be new competition," Xilinx CEO Victor Peng told ZDNet in an interview Friday via Zoom.

"It's a great thing for RISC-V, it's a great thing for any alternative," he said, referring to the open-source RISC-V chip specification, which has been steadily gaining adherents.

Nvidia announced in September that it will buy ARM, which controls the intellectual property underlying the vast majority of the world's CPUs, including Apple's custom A-Series chips, for $40 billion in cash and stock from its current owner, Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group.

Xilinx is in the process of being acquired by Advanced Micro Devices for $34 billion dollars, a deal that was announced last October. Both AMD and Xilinx rely on ARM's intellectual property, but both also compete with Nvidia, a situation that is true of numerous chip vendors, including Intel and Qualcomm, as Nvidia's presence spreads to many industries.

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