NVIDIA's Now $54 Billion Arm Acquisition Hits Major Snag with the European Commission, Offers Concessions

[awesomesauce]

It not just about Softbank that needs money but also with china and US tech war and they want to get out of it.

 

[InhaleOblivion]

Yeah this is worse than America going from 4 major telecom carriers to 3. The vast majority of tech users here already know how this will go if approved.

 

[medi01]

What's curious is that the ones against it are the ones with custom ARM cores projects or GPUs. Possibly, Qualcomm and Apple wouldn't be thrilled to have Nvidia offer their archs instead of Mali ones as they could lose a lot of advantages there.

So, NV needs to buy ARM to produce its own custom ARM project, huh?

 

[Totally]

So, NV needs to buy ARM to produce its own custom ARM project, huh?

No, there is nothing stopping Nvidia from doing so right now as demonstrated by Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon* who have developed their own custom ARM silicon. So their motives lie entirely elsewhere.

 

[theGryphon]

Forgive me for askinh but why is an american company always facing bureaucratic troubles from europeans but not the other way around. I remember very clearly pepsico wanted to buy Danone from french and in the end their government vetoed the deal citing Danone is historic importance to french culture....always same and lame excuses.

I think you got your answer with Broadcom/Qualcomm deal that didn't go through because of US govt veto. It's the same treatment when we're talking about companies with critical IP.

French case is kinda different, well because French are. They have a very strong sense of nationality there, and I respect that. I don't necessarily like the French govt policies but it's a matter of national pride there when it comes to their big brands/companies. Remember French govt bailout of the PSA group back in 2014? They wouldn't let them go under or get gobbled up by another conglomerate...