Nvidia is preparing to abandon the acquisition of Arm, still to pay SoftBank $1.25 billion
Nvidia may not have thought that the acquisition of Arm would be so troublesome, and it is too difficult to pass the scrutiny of regulatory agencies in various countries. In particular, at the end of last year, the US Federal Trade Commission, after reviewing and evaluating, believed that NVIDIA had the means and motivation to “kill the next generation of innovative technology” after acquiring Arm. It has dealt a heavy blow to Nvidia as it hurts competition in the global market in areas such as intelligent driver assistance systems, data processing centers and SmartNICs, and Arm processor-based cloud computing services.
At the time, the director of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition said in a statement:
“Tomorrow’s technologies depend on preserving today’s competitive, cutting-edge chip markets. This proposed deal would distort Arm’s incentives in chip markets and allow the combined firm to unfairly undermine Nvidia’s rivals.”