Business | Integrating circuits
How Nvidia’s purchase of Arm could open new markets
It could also be blocked by China
WHEN SOFTBANK, a Japanese technology group, paid $32bn for Arm in 2016, it was the biggest deal in chipmaking history. That record held until September 13th, when Nvidia, a big American chipmaker, announced its intention to buy the Britain-based chip-designer for $40bn.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Integrating circuits”
Business September 19th 2020
- Who will rule the Teslaverse?
- Can Nikola become the next Tesla?
- How BP’s newish boss sees the future of fossil fuels
- How Nvidia’s purchase of Arm could open new markets
- Who are the TikTok saga’s biggest winners?
- How do you stop corporate fraud?
- How Snowflake raised $3bn in a record software IPO
- What is stakeholder capitalism?
From the September 19th 2020 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the editionMore from Business
Germans are world champions of calling in sick
It’s easy and it pays well
Knowing what your colleagues earn
The pros and cons of greater pay transparency
A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities
It’s build, baby, build
Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
Reasons not to panic about the tech-industrial complex
OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software
The more reasoning it does, the more computer power it uses
Donald Trump once tried to ban TikTok. Now can he save it?
To keep the app alive in America, he must persuade China to sell up