Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32 billion

[HalfMoon]

Will this make Nvidia a monopoly or close to it?

Basically, Japanese do not want to be seen as the ones leading the war against the Chinese companies. They are passing the gun key to the US to fight the battle against China.

 

[LeGenD]

Will this make Nvidia a monopoly or close to it?

Soft Bank wants to sell ARM and there are two potential buyers (NVIDIA and APPLE).

APPLE does not cater to wider audience. NVIDIA can do a better job with ARM provided it is able to secure the deal.

Monopoly? No! CPU market will be more competitive instead.

 

[fitpOsitive]

SoftBank has been rumored to be exploring a sale of ARM — the British chip designer that powers nearly every major mobile processor from companies like Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, and Huawei — and now, it might have found a buyer. Nvidia is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy ARM in a deal worth over $32 billion, according to Bloomberg.

Nvidia is said to be the only company that’s involved in concrete discussions with SoftBank for the purchase at this time, and a deal could arrive “in the next few weeks,” although nothing is finalized yet. If the deal does go through, it would be one of the largest deals ever in the computer chip business and would likely draw intense regulatory scrutiny.

SoftBank bought ARM in 2016 for $31 billion, and ARM has only grown in value since then as its designs have become more and more integral to Android and iOS devices alike. Microsoft already makes an ARM-based Surface and a version of Windows designed for ARM; Apple also recently announced that it would be switching its Mac computers over to ARM-based chipsets in the latest boon for the company. As SoftBank looks to pay off its growing pile of debt in order to appease uneasy investors, a sale of ARM at its peak could help bolster the Japanese technology conglomerate’s finances.

Nvidia would make an interesting owner for ARM — while the company is the leader for GPUs (which ARM also designs), it has little to do with CPU design or mobile hardware outside of its Tegra line of mobile chipsets (most famously used by the Nintendo Switch and the Nvidia Shield line of set-top boxes), which actually are based on ARM designs.

Owning ARM would give Nvidia far more power over the broader computing world and likely trigger some heavy scrutiny from regulators, given that Nvidia is a customer of ARM, which competes with other companies that also rely on ARM’s designs.

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Nvidia buying arm = Boeing buying Toyota.
My question will be: why?

 

[LeGenD]

Nvidia buying arm = Boeing buying Toyota.
My question will be: why?

NVIDIA is at a disadvantage in CPU market due to licensing limitations. ARM can do the trick.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Groan. I hope neither gets it. Both companies have massively ramped up the pricing of computer products, just look at NVIDIA graphics cards right now... And, we all know Apples reputation when it comes to pricing.

 

[UKBengali]

Groan. I hope neither gets it. Both companies have massively ramped up the pricing of computer products, just look at NVIDIA graphics cards right now... And, we all know Apples reputation when it comes to pricing.

I think that apart from iPhones, Apple products are priced competitively.

Personally I own both an iMac and IPad and think they are good value for money.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Yes, but Soft Bank suffered huge loses this year. So they are selling some assets.

But why sell ARM...why not sell other less promising assets?

 

[dani191]

i dont see what is the problem that she will buy her