From CNBC, June 14/15:
Qualcomm Reportedly Offers to Invest In ARM as Regulators Threaten to Block NVIDIA’s $40 billion Acquisition
- Qualcomm has said it is open to the idea of investing in U.K. chip designer Arm if the company’s sale to Nvidia is blocked by regulators, according to The Telegraph.
- Arm was spun out of an early computing company called Acorn Computers in 1990.
- The company’s energy-efficient chip architectures are used in 95% of the world’s smartphones and 95% of the chips designed in China.
U.S. chip goliath Qualcomm has said it is open to the idea of investing in U.K. chip designer Arm if the company’s $40 billion sale to Nvidia is blocked by regulators, according to The Telegraph newspaper.
Qualcomm’s incoming CEO, Cristiano Amon, said Qualcomm would be willing to buy a stake in Arm alongside other industry investors if SoftBank, Arm’s current owner, listed the company on the stock market instead of selling it to Nvidia, the newspaper reported Sunday.
“If Arm has an independent future, I think you will find there is a lot of interest from a lot of the companies within the ecosystem, including Qualcomm, to invest in Arm,” Amon said. “If it moves out of SoftBank and it goes into a process of becoming a publicly-traded company, [with] a consortium of companies that invest, including many of its customers, I think those are great possibilities.”....
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