On September 14, NVIDIA officially announced that it would spend US $40 billion (stock and cash) to acquire arm to build the world's top computing company in the AI era. This evening, NVIDIA founder and CEO Huang Renxun issued a letter to employees. In the letter, Huang Renxun said,From now on, we will join hands with arm to build the leading computing company in the AI era.
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AI is the most powerful technical force of our time. Learning from data, AI supercomputers write software that humans cannot write.
At the same time, it's amazing that AI software can perceive its environment, infer the best solution, and execute it autonomously. Thanks to this, this new form of software will extend AI computing to every corner of the earth.
One day in the future, trillions of computers running AI will create a new Internet, the Internet of things, thousands of times more than the Internet of today.
Huang Renxun stressed that,It will continue arm's open authorization mode, maintain its customer neutrality, and provide services for customers in various industries around the world.
The following is the full text of Huang Renxun's letter to employees:
hello everyone,
Today, we announced that we have signed the final agreement to acquire arm.
The number of computers using armcpu has reached an astonishing 180 billion. In last year alone, 22 billion computers were equipped with armcpu. Arm has become the most popular CPU in the world.
Arm's CEO, Simon segars, and his arm team created a remarkable company that not only reshaped the entire computer industry, but also nearly affected the world's technology market.
From now on, we will join hands with arm to build the leading computing company in the AI era. AI is the most powerful technical force of our time. Learning from data, AI supercomputers write software that humans cannot write. At the same time, it's amazing that AI software can perceive its environment, infer the best solution, and execute it autonomously.
Thanks to this, this new form of software will extend AI computing to every corner of the earth. One day in the future, trillions of computers running AI will create a new Internet, the Internet of things, thousands of times more than the Internet of today.
We combine NVIDIA's AI computing power with ARM's huge CPU ecosystem, and seize the potential AI opportunities to promote the development of cloud computing, mobile phone, personal computer, autopilot, robot, 5G and Internet of things.
We will introduce NVIDIA's world leading AI technology into arm's ecosystem, and increase NVIDIA's developers from 2 million to 15 million.
Our R & D scale will accelerate the pace of arm's Roadmap and expand its opportunities in data center, edge AI and Internet of things.
Arm has an excellent business model. We will continue arm's open licensing model, maintain its customer neutrality, provide services to customers in various industries around the world, and further expand arm's IP licensing portfolio by using NVIDIA's global leading GPU and AI technology.
Arm will remain headquartered in Cambridge and will continue to be the cornerstone of the UK's technology ecosystem. NVIDIA plans to retain arm's name and strong brand identity. Simon and his management team said they were looking forward to joining NVIDIA.
The NVIDIA AI research center we are about to build here will become the leading AI supercomputer base driven by ARM CPU. The computing infrastructure here will be a great attraction to scientists around the world who are pioneering research in health care, life sciences, robotics, autonomous driving vehicles and other fields. The center will be our European hub for working with universities, industry partners and start-ups.
In addition, the center will become NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute for Europe, where we will teach you how to apply extraordinary AI technologies.
The foundation, founded by NVIDIA and arm employees, offers us a great opportunity to build a leading computing company in the era of artificial intelligence. We are excited about the possibility of the merger of the two companies.
I can't wait to meet the future!
Huang Renxun
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