Recently, some media reported that Nvidia decided to abandon the acquisition of ARM at the board meeting on February 7, local time, which means that this acquisition that lasted for more than 1 year and amounted to $40 billion was finally yellow.
As for why Huang, I believe it goes without saying, on the one hand, the british, european union and American regulators are opposed, on the other hand, Intel, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft, Huawei and other giants have opposed.
After the acquisition was yellowed, NVIDIA had to pay ARM $1.25 billion, or about 8 billion yuan. ARM's next move is said to be an independent IPO to replace the deal with Nvidia.
And this acquisition case is yellow, I believe That Huawei and Qualcomm are also relieved. When I say Huawei and Qualcomm, I don't mean Huawei and Qualcomm, but many chip companies that use ARM licensing, including Huawei, Qualcomm and other companies.
Why? We know that ARM itself does not produce chips, its model is to authorize IP, all companies as long as they give money, ARM will give authorization, and there is no competition with everyone.
Also under this model of ARM, more than 95% of mobile chips currently use ARM architecture, and many enterprises also use ARM's IP core, such as Crotex CPU core, MaliGPU core, NPU core and so on.
But Nvidia is different, it is a chip company itself, has its own GPU, DPU and other chips, once the acquisition of ARM, many chip companies using ARM architecture, worried about the existence of competition with NVIDA, thus affected, such as Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm and so on.
In addition, Nvida as an American company, and the current United States for chips control is very strict, once ARM is acquired by Nvidia, we are worried that this aspect will also be affected, such as Huawei, ZTE and other enterprises.
Therefore, since the acquisition came out, everyone has been opposed continuously, and no one is willing to let Nvidia acquire ARM, only hoping that ARM will continue to remain neutral and the model will not change.
Now that the deal is yellow, presumably these released companies must be relieved. Of course, this 8 billion is not a big deal for NVIDA, after all, after the acquisition came out, the market value of NVIDA rose by trillions of yuan, and 8 billion is nothing.