Support NeoGAF

[IbizaPocholo]

NVIDIA to abandon its ARM Holdings acquisition plans - VideoCardz.com

NVIDIA to drop its bid for ARM acquisition Bloomberg is reporting that NVIDIA is to abandon plans to acquire ARM Holdings. This decision will cost 1.25B USD. NVIDIA faced strong opposition from regulatory bodies in their bid to purchase ARM Holdings, a British company owning the IP of its RISC...

videocardz.com

NVIDIA faced strong opposition from regulatory bodies in their bid to purchase ARM Holdings, a British company owning the IP of its RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architectures. After numerous attempts to convince the market and governments that could oppose such a transaction, NVIDIA has allegedly given up the plans, which means that it will have to mark a $1.25 billion loss, money that should be considered a breakup fee.

NVIDIA's original plan was to pay 40 billion USD for the company. However, the US chipmaker no longer expects this transaction to close.

Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval for the $40 billion chip deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
— Bloomberg

Back in 2020, NVIDIA promised to keep the open-source licensing model of ARM and retain customer neutrality under its wings. The company further reassured to expand research and development presence in Cambridge (UK) where ARM is located. Those promises, however, did not convince the regulatory bodies.

Without the full directing rights to the ARM architecture, NVIDIA's bid to enter the CPU market may face new obstacles. Although both companies have had strong cooperation in the past, NVIDIA will not have the full right to designate the path for the ARM architecture.

 

[iHaunter]

Didn't FTC stop them?

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

Didn't FTC stop them?

first sentence:

NVIDIA faced strong opposition from regulatory bodies

 

[Tripolygon]

I'll believe it when I see it but that is the right outcome if it is true. This deal should have been killed right off the bat.

 

[GHG]

This is actually a good thing for the broader hardware market.

Will cost Nvidia 1.25 billion though.

 

[iHaunter]

first sentence:

NVIDIA faced strong opposition from regulatory bodies

Didn't specify who, so I did.

 

[roosnam1980]

OOF

 

[Coloress_Kafka]

Great news, looking forward to SoftBank spinning it off with an IPO. Seems like it will be a solid investment and the money will help accelerate ARM further.

 

[Trogdor1123]

What is nvidia going to do with all that extra cash then? Make more gpus? I'm kidding, they won't do that.

 

[reksveks]

What is nvidia going to do with all that extra cash then? Make more gpus? I'm kidding, they won't do that.

To be fair, more money doesn't solve the problem too much unless they start to build fabs.

 

[winjer]

It´s probably best for the industry and consumers, that nVidia doesn't buy ARM. It would make them too powerful.

 

[Larogue]

Shouldn't stop them from making their own custom ARM SoC for the consumer market.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Shouldn't stop them from making their own custom ARM SoC for the consumer market.

They have already done this

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Great news

 

[winjer]

Shouldn't stop them from making their own custom ARM SoC for the consumer market.

nVidia owns an ARM license. Just like Intel, AMD, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and many more.
That´s why having one of these companies buying and controlling ARM, would be bad.

 

[Swift_Star]

Good. Fuck big M&As.

 

[Trogdor1123]

To be fair, more money doesn't solve the problem too much unless they start to build fabs.

No, it was just a crappy joke.

Does nvidia own their own fabs?

 

[Three]

Not sure if this is good or bad. Nvidia unlike Intel and AMD don't have APU capability. This would have been their way to get the same capability.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Not sure if this is good or bad. Nvidia unlike Intel and AMD don't have APU capability. This would have been their way to get the same capability.

Consolidation is almost never good in the long run.

 

[BWJinxing]

If they do the IPO, hopefully, no rouge activist gets control.

I would rather see a industry consurtum, proposed months ago.

Though it doesn't make sense, how can ARM be bleeding so much, if all I does is design cpus?

I could see patent cost, but all of earth is using them.

 

[Three]

Consolidation is almost never good in the long run.

That's true, hope this is good new in the long run. Considering AMD bought up ATI and made a good SoC business for itself it just seems almost unfair to block NVidia now though.

 

[Represent.]

Damn I read this as "Microsoft to drop acquisition of Activision, COD to remain multiplat"

 

[BlackM1st]

OOF

Spidey 3 is so bad. But it's also so good... Gosh, I wish we had him in MCU instead ;_;

 

[A.Romero]

Amazing to think that ARM was set to be sold at 40bn while ABK sold for 69bn.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Brits are resilient mofos. Not bending to gringo money abuse.

Spoiler

Go get them, you're British so you get a pass.

 

[SF Kosmo]

That's true, hope this is good new in the long run. Considering AMD bought up ATI and made a good SoC business for itself it just seems almost unfair to block NVidia now though.

ARM is just too ubiquitous in the mobile space. It's already problematic even by itself, let alone when combined with nVidia.

 

[Buggy Loop]

OOF

 

[reksveks]

Does nvidia own their own fabs?

nah, use tsmc and samsung ones

 

[Trogdor1123]

nah, use tsmc and samsung ones

Thanks, appreciate the info

 

[BlackM1st]

nah, use tsmc and samsung ones

Fucking crazy how much the whole world depends on Taiwan and S.Korea, really...

 

[Drew1440]

It's good news for ARM at least, but I wish Nvidia were more competitive in the desktop CPU/APU market.

 

[Notabueno]

Great news

 

[TransTrender]

This is fantastic news! I can't believe reason has finally prevailed and stopped a bullshit mega merger.