Tuesday, August 18th 2020
NVIDIA Might Close the Deal of Arm Acquisition Before Summer Ends
Last time we have reported that the situation with NVIDIA taking over Arm is getting serious, and it was reported that their talks were getting quite advanced. Today, we are getting new information regarding this, from the sources of Evening Standard. According to their information, the deal is supposed to be done by the time summer ends. That puts the timing of the deal very close to the present, so we could expect to see more details very soon. The venture is worth a lot, as Softbank is asking as much as 40 billion GBP, which is around 52.62 billion USD. It also goes to show just how much Arm Ltd. has grown in value from the 31 billion USD number Softbank paid in 2016 to acquire it.
Sources:
Evening Standard, via Hardwareluxx.de
41 Comments on NVIDIA Might Close the Deal of Arm Acquisition Before Summer Ends
EU authorities(or whoever might apply as regulator in this case) would at the very least stall the takeover for a while, if nothing else, but I think they will look into this deal and block it.Regarding 2, the question is what those licensees think about this deal and if they're willing to put a lot of cash (or something equally interesting for Softbank) on the table to at least take some of ARM's shares away from Nvidia.
After that hurdle, Softbank still need to appease their Japanese regulators and then if it's passed it'll be fought by every single one of Nvidia's competitors and existing ARM clients in various international courts.
On the other hand Nvidia could be just trying to secure their future by getting their hands on a CPU platform that is both successful and wide spread. And in that case the ARM platform could see huge benefits from this acquisition. Of course high hopes where also when Nvidia got Ageia and we all know what happened. But an Nvidia that will let it's arrogance to the side and try to create a real competing platform against the X86 platform, that could be something.
They're not going to block the sale of a UK company to a US one anyway. Would imperil the trade deal they want with the US ... where ultimately the UK will become a dumping ground for dangerous or substandard US crap, which is rightly kept out currently, and healthcare is privatized.
I can't see how this could get past EU regulators however. It has such profound implications for not only the tech industry, but everything that relies on its products.
I think everyone at TPU should club together and buy them all out, that'll show em :p
At over 94000 strong, that means just a little below 560 000 USD each.
I say we do it :cool: