technology company NVIDIA, ARM wants to buy the semiconductor designer. $40 billion This agreement was announced in September 2020. However, after the UK, the USA also opposed this decision. Shortly before US Federal Trade commission (FTC) announced that it had launched an investigation by opposing this purchase. According to the news today, the FTC sued NVIDIA.
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FTC, Silicon Valley tech maker NVIDIAUK-based chip designer ARMsued to block the $40 billion deal he wanted to buy . Commission officials, the largest in history semiconductor-chip merger He said the deal would cause major problems.
if NVIDIA, ARM If he buys his company, things will turn in NVIDIA’s favor. The FTC is concerned about unfair competition in semiconductor manufacturing and rising prices for consumers. director of the FTC’s competition bureau Holly Vedova“The technologies of tomorrow depend on maintaining today’s competitive, cutting-edge chip markets,” he said.
Meanwhile, both the FTC and European regulators have been examining the deal for a long time. NVIDIA’s main family of graphics processor products GeForcecompetitor to AMD’s Radeon products. In contrast, AMD uses ARM’s technology. In other words, if NVIDIA buys ARM, it will eliminate its biggest competitor in this game.
NVIDIA’s spokesperson made a statement on the subject. He argued that the FTC would fight his case and that this acquisition of the company would benefit the industry. He also said they will continue to work to show that it will encourage competition.