One of the pioneers and well-known gentlemen from the ARM (Advanced Risc Machine) industry named Hermann Hauser has once again come out and has made negative remarks against Nvidia’s intention to buy out the pre-eminent semiconductor manufacturing technology. He has given his words to the well-known news organization called Telegraph, that he reckons that Nvidia is showing all signs that it will compete unfairly should the deal get approved and signed.

The crux of Hermann Hauser’s problems with Nvidia starts with the Grace Central Processing Unit that the prominent tech giant had released at an event dubbed as GTC 2021. The debuting Central Processing Unit based on Arm processor from the company will create a connection with GPU’s courtesy of NVLink, which proposes a staggering data transmission speed of 900 Gbps. It will leapfrog other technologies present in the market, and it will only be a product exclusively released by Nvidia, thus further adding to its prominence.

And, because of this reason, Hermann Hauser had to come out and talk to Telegraph, and he has clearly expressed his concerns that if users start using proprietary-based interface products, they might get locked into the products released solely by Nvidia, which will be unfair to its competitors. Hauser clearly pointed his gun at Nvidia and said that they have all plans to be in the competition with an unfair advantage over different competitors and server companies producing ARM chips such as Fujitsu and Amazon. He alluded to the fact that Nvidia is deviating from the Arm’s neutrality.

Hauser has never shed any squirms over criticizing Nvidia, and it is not the first instance he has publicly spoken against Nvidia’s intention to obtain a monopoly in ARM production. Furthermore, it is not as if Hermann Hauser has been left alone in this battle; Nvidia has received several flacks from several sources. Some premium companies, which even include Nvidia’s licensees, such as Qualcomm alongside tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, have many times expounded their concerns over Nvidia’s open acquisition of ARM. And, now, it would be needless to suggest that other companies are also observing the drama and might have already joined in the chorus in the preceding few months.

The Secretary of State of the United Kingdom looking after media, culture, sport, and digital facets of the country named Oliver Dowden CBE had alluded to the fact last month that he wanted the CMA (an acronym for Competition and Markets Authority) to do a thorough investigation of the proposal and its impact on the national security. He had advised CMA to prepare a detailed report of their investigation pertaining to the proposal and its national security implications latest by July the 31st, 2021.

Nvidia has come out and defended their plans and has criticized Hermann Hauser for his claims and ignorance. The company has made a statement recently in which it had said that Hauser is unaware of the importance of the Grace Central Processing Unit and the “benefits” it will bring to the users as well as the industry. The company also added that they had designed Grace processors employing off-the-books ARM methodologies, which is available to all the companies with ARM licenses, and the company also alluded to the fact the team has been working in the creation of Grace way before they even had ARM.

However, the criticism hasn’t been just related to ARM, Grace, and Central Processing Unit. The other aspect of the criticism has been directed towards NVLink, and the fact it will give a monopoly to Nvidia. Some tech experts have also advised Nvidia that their NVLink invention must also be offered to its competitors. Otherwise, the prominent company will enjoy an unfair and monopolistic advantage over others.

Well, the validation of the argument might differ from person to person, and several tech experts also have opinionated other things as well. However, all the debate does infer that Nvidia will continue to face criticism and negative publicity every time they will release the product until the ARM issue gets resolved. The pressure on Nvidia will continue to mount from here.

The ARM architecture is basically a family of computer architecture that utilizes RISC instructions for processors. It was designed by Acorn Computers (Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson) in 1985. The ARM 64/32-bit architecture was released to the world in 2011.

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