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Originally Posted by EuanT
I don't know about the Linux impact but, as a limey, I have serious reservations about losing control of such a key technological asset. I cannot imagine the US Dept of Commerce permitting a foreign power to gian control of Intel or AMD.
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That ship already sailed - ARM was already sold to Softbank Corporation, based in Japan, in 2016...
Four years later and they are selling it on... no real surprises there.
Softbank also approached the likes of Apple and Samsung among others to find a buyer for ARM.
The real problem: The UK government allowed the sale of hugely important home grown technology company to foreign venture capitalists - Nvidia now being the likely buyer is just an obvious consequence of that earlier bad decision.
It's a typical tale of corporate greed. With ARM Holdings and it's shareholders and the UK government being squarely to blame, rather than Nvidia.