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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by Macha on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:34AM (#24468961)
As a Chinese subsidiary of a western company, isn't there a requirement that Arm China is 51% owned by Chinese owners. If the Chinese government pushed the matter, I imagine those 51% would have to vote the way China wants, so the parent company's mere 49% ownership counts for nothing if China wants otherwise
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by evancox100 on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:10AM (#24470344)
Other commenter is wrong, ARM the UK company only owns 49% of the JV, other Chinese companies hold the rest. Supposedly ARM + at least one other shareholder were in agreement about firing the JV CEO, meeting the 50% threshold. But I think you are right, if China really had an issue with something, what could you do?
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by DiogenesKynikos on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:14AM (#24469719)
No, there is no such requirement. However, Softbank decided to sell a majority of its operations in China to Chinese investors in 2018.[1] It appears that fear of US sanctions motivated the sale.

1. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Softbanks-Arm-Chi...

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by DiogenesKynikos on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:53PM (#24473045)
Interesting that my entirely factual and accurate comment, with a source, is downvoted so heavily.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by ksec on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:24PM (#24474701)
My guess is that they dont read the source, they just thought you were taking about ARM as a whole and mixing up with the recent news of Nvidia.
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