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Iv on May 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia

Softbank's CEO has two, personal, areas of interest he is willing to bet a lot on: IoT and robotics. NVidia is a very competent hardware manufacturer and is investing a lot in deep learning.

Softbank has telephony networks and robots manufacture. It does make some sense.

agumonkey on May 24, 2017 | [–]

And after ARM acquisition it's not out of place.

hkmurakami on May 24, 2017 | [–]

>NVidia is a very competent hardware manufacturer

Aren't their fabs outsourced to TSMC?

s0rce on May 25, 2017 | [–]

Yes, they design hardware, not sure I would call them a manufacturer.

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