SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by cwhiz on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:35PM (#24456849)

It seems a little dramatic to think Nvidia would spend $40 billion just to run ARM into the ground.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by manquer on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:22PM (#24457658)

Large M&A have always been a mixed bag of success. Large ones have failed spectacularly in the past so not an unreasonable expectation

In this case the ROI does not depend on nvidia able to leverage ARM in their portfolio, even if they stopped developing ARM now , the licensing alone is worth a lot, while they hope to do more than that they don't have to.

IP can be extremely valuable in a merger like this , Google bought motorola and Microsoft bought nokia for largely IP reasons at 15B and 8 B

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by QuixoticQuibit on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:33AM (#24459124)

People here have an axe to grind against Nvidia it seems. Somehow seen as Intel but for GPUs despite being highly innovative and continuously so.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by Twixes on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:29AM (#24459358)

Their GPUs are great. But their business practices are bad, and if they apply them to ARM, that will hurt us all.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by saagarjha on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:02AM (#24459261)

I don’t think the issue is that they aren’t doing well, it’s that they have historically not done good.

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by ianai on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:08PM (#24457600)

Agree. I really think they want to eat Intels lunch.

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