Nvidia buys SoftBank’s chipmaker Arm in $40bn deal

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The technology company plans to build an AI research facility at Arm’s UK location and pledges to keep it independent to retain customers

’s chip division Arm for $40bn, taking control of some of the most widely used electronics technology in the semiconductor industry’s largest-ever deal.

“It’s a company with reach that’s just unlike any company in the history of technology,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview. “We’re uniting Nvidia’s leading AI computing with Arm’s vast ecosystem.” ​“Now Arm will become a US firm, and the conflict over semiconductors between the US and China is becoming fierce as China still controls Arm China,” said Koji Hirai, head of M&A advisory firm Kachitas in Tokyo.

Huang said he will preserve Arm’s neutrality and wants to expand its client list. He argued Nvidia is spending a lot of money for the acquisition and has no incentive to do anything that would cause clients to walk away. Cambridge, UK-based Arm has created a successful niche for itself by being independent. Fierce rivals such as Apple, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm, Broadcom and Huawei Technologies are all licensees.

 

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