Amazon's rumored investment in Arm's IPO is good insurance

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Amazon's rumored investment in Arm's IPO might be good insurance

The cloud provider is expected to introduce Graviton4 sometime in 2025, and even if AWS follows Ampere, Apple, and others down the path of developing its own cores, Arm still gets a slice of those revenues.

Ultimately, what's good for Arm is good for AWS, and in that case, holding a rather sizable stake in the company on which you've grown increasingly dependent isn't just good insurance, it's common sense.Amazon is far from the only chipmaker with a vested interest in Arm's future. Earlier this week it wasthat Nvidia, Apple, Samsung, and x86 giant Intel would bid for shares as soon as they hit the market.

All of these companies are long-time Arm licensees. Apple, Nvidia, and Samsung in particular are heavily invested in the Arm ecosystem. In fact, Nvidia was so invested in Arm's potential that it attempted to buy the British chip designer for $66 billion. That deal ultimatelyin early 2022 after the chipmaker failed to assuage regulators' concerns in multiple markets.

While Nvidia is best known for its GPUs, the company has been making Arm-based CPUs, mostly for mobile, handheld gaming, and edge applications for more than a decade. However, in 2021 the company

 

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