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