Haas: Intel competition drove Nvidia's early pivot to Arm architecture
Rene Haas · Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War · Sep 30, 2025 · at 2:48
Arm CEO Rene Haas, a former Nvidia executive, recounts how competitive friction with Intel led Nvidia to pivot engineering resources to Arm-based chipsets.
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“That was the genesis of starting to pivot to ARM in a very big way inside NVIDIA, because at that time, Jensen looked at what was going on with SoCs and ARM-based architecture and moved everybody on to the SoC program.”
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