[Hardware] NVIDIA wants to close the acquisition of ARM before the end of the summer

[SougarLord]

It seems that we are facing the final stretch of the sale of ARM by SoftBank. The Japanese investment company wants to sell ARM due to a series of bad investments that have cost them a lot of money. Who seems to be comparing the firm ARM, developer of architectures for processors is NVIDIA and it would be before the end of the summer.

 

Curiously, SoftBank a few years ago sold the shares they had in NVIDIA, specifically after the drop in sales of graphics for mining. The decision was not well understood at the time, but it would have to do with some bad investments. All these sales are to recover capital and try to make new investments that will pay dividends in the future.

ARM would finally be acquired by NVIDIA before the end of the summer.

 

During these weeks we have heard a lot about it. Initially there was talk of Apple and Samsung as best positioned for the acquisition of ARM. Apple ruled out the purchase and rumors began about the interest of NVIDIA, which would be a very well positioned buyer at the moment. SoftBank would have tried to place ARM on TSMC, Foxconn and Qualcomm, who would have rejected the operation.

 

Evening Standard, a British media, NVIDIA would already be finalizing the fringes for the acquisition of ARM. The deal is expected to come before the end of the summer. Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank would be asking about 52,000 million dollars for ARM. SoftBank in 2016 paid 32,000 million dollars for the acquisition of ARM, so it would be an increase in value by 20,000 million dollars in just 4 years.

 

ARM is primarily dedicated to developing architectures for SoCs and more recently for desktops, laptops and servers. ARM is also the developer of the RISC instructions, a simplified instruction set that works very well on smartphones. Companies like Apple, Samsung or Qualcomm make use of ARM's RISC architecture and designs. Intel and AMD, on the other hand, would be developing designs similar to the big.LITTLE architecture that ARM designed.