Back in 2020, Nvidia made headlines when it announced that it will acquire Arm. And well, it could have given rise to one of the biggest acquisitions in the tech world. However, this collaboration has now been terminated, following various rumors that popped up recently.
The decision to call off the Nvidia-Arm deal has been accredited to various regulation challenges. It is suggested that the deal would have affected Arm’s free licensing model, and hence, faced regulation lapses in the US and even Europe.
Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA, said in a blog post, “Arm has a bright future, and we’ll continue to support them as a proud licensee for decades to come. Arm is at the center of the important dynamics in computing. Though we won’t be one company, we will partner closely with Arm. The significant investments that Masa has made have positioned Arm to expand the reach of the Arm CPU beyond client computing to supercomputing, cloud, AI, and robotics. I expect Arm to be the most important CPU architecture of the next decade.“
