It’s always difficult for a company to set out its roadmap while under the shadow of a potential acquisition, and especially one that could entirely change the firm’s model and proposition. The prospect that Nvidia might succeed in its $40bn purchase of ARM clearly hovered over discussions at ARM’s annual developer summit this month, but executives still succeeded in providing a clear vision of core strategies, particularly to enable processors for the end-to-end cloud and 5G network. Powering the cloud from edge to supercomputers, including telco infrastructure, is clearly also the objective of Nvidia, though its starting point is its own processors, while ARM’s is an IP licensing and developer ecosystem model that is open to all customers. Nvidia wants…