When Nvidia announced its $40 billion bid to buy Arm from SoftBank in 2020, it was an audacious offer. Nvidia persevered for 18 months trying to complete this deal, but finally called it quits. Softbank will instead pursue an IPO for Arm after purchasing the company back in 2016.
For Nvidia the death of the deal does not change the trajectory of the company much. Nvidia will continue to license the Arm architecture and will develop chips based on Arm IP for various processing applications including data center and embedded designs. Nvidia will use its own internal development team to build custom Arm cores as well as license standard Arm cores. The company's product lines will not suffer, but Nvidia will not be able to influence the future trajectory of Arm directly.
On the positive side, this opens up opportunities for Nvidia to expand through other acquisitions that may be more in line with the company’s strategic goals, less likely to raise the ire of regulators, and potentially at a better value than what Nvidia was offering for Arm.Things will be trickier for Arm. With the Nvidia deal now scuttled, SoftBank will take Arm public through an IPO hoping to make some profit. Softbank acquired Arm back in 2016 for $32B, which was a huge deal.
In addition to the Nvidia deal going bust, Arm now has a new CEO – Arm executive Rene Haas was promoted to CEO and longtime CEO Simon Segars has stepped down, effective immediately.... [+]The management team is also in the midst of fending off the encroachment of RISC-V and RISC-V vendors into its IP and core licensing business. The latest news that Intel is building a $1 billion fund to help startups that will use Intel foundry business in the future.
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