![]() This blathering about “sold to a Japanese firm” is getting old. … Then it is a UK company! … Buying shares is buying ownership, but it doesn’t move the company to another jurisdiction. What did they buy? Shares of a UK company. There is now a much more muscular political take on UK national security concerns with a particular focus on tech.īut if it’s owned by a Japanese company, why is the UK getting involved? Glad you asked- Aighearach answers: … Arm licenses its designs to other chipmakers, providing scope to restrict rivals’ access.Īrm was a political talking point in 2016, when its sale to SoftBank … was waved through with embarrassing ease. The transaction, which was announced in September 2020, is bogged down in regulatory reviews around the world: … Arm’s “neutral” business model has always made it a difficult acquisition. … The CMA’s full phase 1 report doesn’t make for easy reading. … Nvidia got both from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. ![]() It is another for it to imply publicly that your assurances credible. It is one thing for a regulator to give your deal a thorough going-over. Helen Thomas: Nvidia faces tough Arm wrestle They’re even found in exascale iron, including the Riken Fugaku, the world’s fastest supercomputer. So this deal really shouldn’t go through, regardless of Nvidia’s fluffy PR reassurances.ĪRM chips aren’t just found in 99% of smartphones, but are an increasing fixture in the datacenter-especially where “performance per Watt” is important. Arm doesn’t make chips-it licenses technology to Nvidia and many of its competitors-AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Samsung and Qualcomm, to name but five. ![]() This matters because ownership of the ARM ISA and the core designs would be a huge strategic stick to beat Nvidia’s competition with.
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