Read more.US$40 billion deal potentially a risk to national security, insiders tell Bloomberg.
Read more.US$40 billion deal potentially a risk to national security, insiders tell Bloomberg.
So we should expect Nvidia to be buying ARM anytime now.
CAT-THE-FIFTH (04-08-2021)
kalniel (05-08-2021)
So, someone somewhere is blocking the deal..
Pretty extreme way to get a GPU if you ask me, still, beats paying scalper prices hey...
Well Meggitt is now going to be bought up too. One by one,a lot of our large technology and engineering companies are being sold to foreign interests,and eventually they will be merged/broken apart over the next 5~10 years. It already happened with ARM,as Softbank retained some parts of it.
I feel that if the deal doesn't pass and softbank eventually does an arm ipo, nvidia may just try a takeover, but at least then other players will have a chance to put their money where their mouth is (like qualcomm, apple, and all the other companies who depend on arm ip).
Could result in a big cash infusion for Arm that allows them to grow and become more sustainable and would be preferable to nvidia just taking it over (no, i don't thrust nvidia to be good about it, and regulators shouldn't either! it's like they learned nothing from recent acquisition from big players like facebook for example)
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
corruption at the highest level. meanwhile the rushed through the approval of amd to buy xilinx for 35 billion.
Completely different technological sectors.
ARM is the most widely used CPU architecture in the world and putting it in the ownership of a business headquartered in a country that has actively sanctioned and restricted use of products/technology either manufactured/designed in that country is cause for concern.
Xilinx is an FPGA manufacturer that is in a crowded technological sector so is less of an issue.
Nvidia should at first known better, such expensive plans have costed CEOs their jobs and shareholders money. This is the same conversation why Intel has never bothered to buy AMD plus the Snapdragon and Broadcom fiasco.
Nvidia investors shouldn't be too worried. All they have to do is find a way to facelessly donate cash to the Tory Party, and/or arrange a few freebie holidays for the PM and his ever-increasing family. All levelled up. Job Done.
Pleiades (05-08-2021)
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