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Bloomberg

Nvidia Corp is in advanced talks to acquire Arm, the semiconductor design company owned by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp, according to people familiar with the matter.
The two parties aim to reach a deal in the next few weeks, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Nvidia is the only suitor in concrete discussions with SoftBank, according to the people.
A deal for Arm could be the largest ever in the semiconductor industry, which has been consolidating in recent years, as companies seek to diversify and add scale.
Cambridge, England-based Arm’s technology underpins chips in products including Apple devices and connected appliances. SoftBank acquired the business for US$32 billion in 2016.
SoftBank said to have approached Apple to gauge interest in chip design firm Arm
No final decisions have been made, and the negotiations could drag on longer or fall apart, the people said.
SoftBank may gauge interest from other suitors if it cannot reach an agreement with Nvidia, the people said. Representatives for Nvidia, SoftBank and Arm declined to comment.
Any deal with Nvidia, which is a customer of Arm, would likely trigger regulatory scrutiny as well as a wave of opposition from other users of the company’s technology.
Other Arm clients could demand assurances that a new owner would continue providing equal access to Arm’s instruction set. Such concerns resulted in SoftBank, a neutral company, buying Arm the last time it was for sale.
Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s billionaire chief executive, has been selling some of his trophy assets as seeks to pay down debt at the Japanese conglomerate.

SoftBank has offloaded part of its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the South China Morning Post, and a chunk of its holdings in wireless carrier T-Mobile US.
Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s largest graphics chip company. Its shares rose 1.4 per cent in New York trading Thursday, giving the firm a market value of about US$261 billion. The stock has more than doubled over the past year.



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Nvidia in advanced talks to buy SoftBank’s chip company Arm

The logo Nvidia Corp is shown at conference on computer graphics in Los Angeles, California, on July 31, 2017. Photo: Reuters

A picture of ARM headquarters in Cambridge UK. Photo: Wikipedia

A photographer is seen in front of the logo of British chip design company Arm in Taipei on May 27, 2019. Photo: Agence France-Presse

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Arm’s technology underpins chips in products including Apple devices and connected appliances
Any deal with Nvidia, which is a customer of Arm, would likely trigger regulatory scrutiny as well as a wave of opposition from other users of the company’s technology



A deal for Arm could be the largest ever in the semiconductor industry, which has been consolidating in recent years, as companies seek to diversify and add scale.


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