The digital cockpits of military aircraft today have increased in complexity and capability by leveraging commercial processing, graphics, and navigation in open architecture designs, bringing unprecedented awareness and advantages to military pilots.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.; CAMBRIDGE, U.K.; TOKYO. NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund (together known as “SoftBank”) in a transaction valued at $40 billion.

GPU manufacturer NVIDIA has not only been keeping up with the times by offering processors for smartphones and tablets; it has also been enabling key shifts in the defense paradigm: Remember the days when it took four to six hours just to render one hour of UAV video? Now NVIDIA GPUs enable UAV video rendering in real-time. And NVIDIA is set to deliver an ultra-accelerated, GPU-enabled 10 to 100x performance increase for the defense industry, as a recent interview with Kevin Berce, NVIDIA Business Development Manager, reveals. Edited excerpts follow.