Although not always among the most cited names, ARM Holdings’ role in today’s technology ecosystem is simply essential. It’s not for nothing that practically all portable devices have integrated devices based on their technologies, and recently we witnessed not the first, but the most relevant of their jumps into the PC ecosystem, with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips. And of course all the Apple Silicon.

Although it ultimately didn’t work out, it was one of the most notable moves in the tech sector in recent years NVIDIA tried to acquire ARM Holdingsan operation announced in September 2020, but in the end, due to the action of regulators, it could not be completed and was canceled in early 2022. Since then, more than two years have passed, and in fact it is still difficult to imagine the technology giant that such an operation would entail.

Since then, once the two technologies parted ways again, rumors and alleged leaks began to emerge They pointed to very diverse plansfrom very interesting cooperation plans, such as the integrated one signed by the two, which we informed you about at the beginning of the year, to plans where the two will become rivals (friends, of course, but competitors) in some markets. And it is in this direction that the latest information on the matter points.

The days when two technology companies could become one are long gone.

As we read in Videocardz, ARM Holdings is taking steps to create its first GPUswith the goal of competing with AMD, Intel and NVIDIA in a market that, thanks to a lot of circumstances, is experiencing golden times and it makes sense that more technology companies are interested in entering it. However, according to the said publication, we are still talking about a relatively early stage, as the company would have an open engineering selection process to launch the project.

As I say, it’s an interesting movement, but also very complicated. To understand this, we only have to remember how difficult Intel has had to enter the dedicated GPU market, and we’re not exactly talking about a company with a small technology base. And since, according to sources, the ARM Holdings project is to create graphics adapters for both the gaming world and for computers with artificial intelligenceit is more than clear that the performance targets are very ambitious.