Acquired · Jan 20TSMC
Founded in 1987 as a joint venture of Apple, Acorn and VLSI Logic, it looked useless when PCs were always plugged in. It is now a close TSMC partner, and Apple's chips trace back to it.
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ARM
A chip IP company whose low-power instruction set underpins most mobile processors.
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Acquired · Jan 20Acquired · Apr 20Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
Nvidia tried to buy it to extend its reach across the data center, but regulators feared a vertically integrated chip maker controlling licenses sold to rivals. Nvidia now builds its own Arm-based CPU, Grace.
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