Nvidia Arm Guardian
The government is under pressure to intervene in the 40bn 31bn takeover of the uk s biggest tech company arm holdings after labour trade unions and the company s co founder voiced concerns about the deal.
Nvidia arm guardian. Today nvidia gpus not only power some of the world s largest supercomputers and cloud data centers. Uk based computer chip design firm arm is to be bought by us tech giant nvidia in a deal worth 40 billion dollars 31 2 billion. Ign up to the daily business today email or follow guardian business on twitter at. It is very much in nvidia s interest to kill arm nvidia has promised to keep the arm brand maintain its neutrality and continue licensing its chip designs to customers.
Arm s acquisition by nvidia puts its switzerland position at an obvious risk. Tokyo reuters the chief executive of nvidia corp said his planned acquisition of arm from softbank group corp 9984 t cost an arm and a leg but that the chip designer s valuable network of. The us based graphics chip maker has pledged to keep arm. They also power edge devices across industries.
The us software firm nvidia said on monday it had agreed to buy cambridge based arm a global leader in designing chips for smartphones computers and tablets from japan s. Nvidia s accelerated computing platform is used to help solve the world s most challenging computational problems. Nvidia s deal would also put arm under the control of a us based combatant amid a trade cold war between the united states and china which is rushing to develop a domestic semiconductor. Hauser said as much to the guardian newspaper.
Nvidia and arm said they expect that the deal will take 18 months to close which we believe signals that they expect a protracted and detailed review by the ministry of commerce in china the. With a diverse set of pre trained models reference applications and fleet management solutions developers can build solutions faster bringing ai to healthcare facilities and improving patient care. Nvidia boss huang has sought to allay such fears promising to keep the arm brand and expand its cambridge hq.