Monday, February 7th 2022
UK Politicians want Arm Holdings to be Floated on UK Stock Market
Although no official word on NVIDIA's rumored failed acquisition of Arm has been announced, UK politicians are now pushing for SoftBank to float Arm Holdings on the UK stock market. This has at least to some degree to do with the fact that the UK wants to keep Arm in the UK, partially due to some claimed national security concerns that apparently weren't present five years ago when the company was sold to SoftBank.
Arm Holdings is said to be worth around £30 billion on its own and several British MP's (Members of Parliament) have stepped up to say that the Arm Holdings should return to the London stock market rather than elsewhere, such as New York, "to ensure its interests and those of its investors are aligned with our national interest" and that the company "should stay British". Time will tell what happens to Arm, but until we have official word from NVIDIA and SoftBank, we have to assume that there's still ongoing discussions between the two parties.
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Arm Holdings is said to be worth around £30 billion on its own and several British MP's (Members of Parliament) have stepped up to say that the Arm Holdings should return to the London stock market rather than elsewhere, such as New York, "to ensure its interests and those of its investors are aligned with our national interest" and that the company "should stay British". Time will tell what happens to Arm, but until we have official word from NVIDIA and SoftBank, we have to assume that there's still ongoing discussions between the two parties.
54 Comments on UK Politicians want Arm Holdings to be Floated on UK Stock Market
ARM is a bit player, I think people get confused because Apple uses the same ISA, but AMD and Intel use the same ISA, it has nothing to do with how important one is versus the other
VIA uses the same ISA... nobody cares about that either
I guess you haven't followed any of the business Nvidia does and how they treat their so called partners.
There's a reason a lot of companies have chosen to never work with Nvidia again.
I wouldn't put it past Nvidia to chance the licensing terms as soon as they could, as it's the kind of thing they would do just to earn more money. This would make Arm inaccessible to a lot of companies that are using their cores in their products today. Considering there are almost no viable alternatives for a lot of products out there, it would be a very real threat to many, very large and small companies out there.
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but to everyone else, Nvidia buying Arm is a bad thing.
A market to which NVIDIA's biggest competitors develop to, too, not being able to do so anymore as a result of a terrifying global monopoly over such thing.
Yeah, good time to rethink and study on why there is such a unanimous and strong voice against this supernova scale ownership.
But I think we can rest assured there are enough eyes on ARM right now, this won't fly anymore. The national security argument has been aired, its over.
Just look at Huawei rn.
Arm should ideally stay independent, simply because they have too many companies that rely on being able to license their tech.
One of the complaints was apparently that they don't charge enough per license to be able to compete with x86 and Qualcomm (yes), but who says they can't up the license costs for some of their new IP releases?
Didn't the global pandemic, a resulting global semiconductor shortage, and all the resulting chaos completely lay bare how numerous countries rely too heavily on foreign manufacturers and foreign IP and has completely changed the way governments view semiconductor production and supply with respect to their national security? Don't get me wrong, I've never been a fan of state level power politics, but I can definitely see how the pandemic seriously altered national security concerns.
SoftBank only got away with buying ARM when they did because of the political situation at the time.
It's been a great success, as Taiwan has never sold as much Welsh Cheddar as it has in the past couple of years.
Arm need to be floated on the UK stock market with rules that the majority shareholder(s) cannot be licensees of Arm tech, to avoid conflict of interest.
If they're not publicly floated, the owner at least needs to not be a licensee, as is currently the case with Softbank.
Softbank: No Worries we got you covered.
ARM to Softbank: we need more money!
Softbank: For sale! One Company with cheap licenses! Free panhandling!
Nvidia: Oh look a fish on our hook! We need more control over the market! Moar market, Moar money!
UK : Thats my fish, go back to your own pond
Nvidia: As***le!
UK: Pretty Please Softbank put ARM back in our strock market f**k everyone else.
...later...
UK: put the canoes in the pond we gotta protect ARM!
:respect::shadedshu:
As the Nvidia deal has shown there are far too many people sticking their oar in to make it an easy deal. They all want a slice of the pie while pretending to care about a level playing field and free open market whilst being the exact opposite.