Nvidiaâs Arm deal investigated Last week s news that the UK government had invoked National security to probe Nvidia s Arm deal means that the CMA, which was already investigating the possible effect of the deal on competition in the UK, will also now be considering national security interests
While the âintervention noticeâ issued by the government has raised questions over the $40 billion deal a spokesman for Nvidia said that it didnât âbelieve that this transaction poses any material national-security issues,â and that the company was happy to work with the British authorities.
In fact, Nvidia executives were said to have expected a possible UK national-security review, although the use of this little invoked power may still have come as a surprise.
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With the 3080 Ti now functionally confirmed to exist in a 12GB SKU, and with a freshly rumored May 26th release date (and 25th review date), we can all declare our boredom of this GPU and move on to the next rumor. The next one is the RTX 3070 Ti, alleged to exist by HKEPC. HKEPC’s Chinese-language coverage cited AIB partners in Taiwan (most of them) as the source for the information.
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The blocked takeover of Arm represents a sharp break with past economic policy The Cambridgeshire chip designer could be the key link in an industrial strategy for the UK s whole high-tech sector.
Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, May 2018. On the same day England’s greediest football clubs were brought to heel by the threat of government intervention against their European Super League cartel, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden blocked the planned sale of Cambridgeshire silicon chip designer Arm to US chip manufacturer Nvidia. Unsurprisingly, the football story overshadowed a squabble over the arcane business of semiconductors, but it represents another dramatic break with past economic policy, and one with global implications as the trade and tech war between the US and China builds once more.
Arm Holdings takeover: has Nvidia had its chips?
The takeover of Britain’s semiconductor group Arm Holdings by its US rival Nvidia could be running into the sand, says Matthew Partridge.
22 Apr 2021
The $40bn acquisition of British semiconductor manufacturer Arm Holdings by America’s Nvidia has been left hanging in the balance, says Amy Thomson on Bloomberg. The culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, says the government may intervene to prevent the tie-up. Dowden has ordered the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is already looking at the impact on competition, to investigate the national security aspects of the deal too.
He notes that the semiconductors are not only “fundamental” to a “wide range of technologies”, including those in defence and national security, but also “underpin the UK’s critical national infrastructure”. Nvidia’s ownership could bring Arm under the “control of powerful US national security laws” that could one day be “used
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