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Nvidia to buy Arm Holdings from SoftBank for $40 billion [cnbc.com]

Chipmaker Nvidia has agreed to buy Arm Holdings, a designer of chips for mobile phones, from SoftBank [cnbc.com] in a deal worth $40 billion, the companies announced [nvidia.com] Sunday. The deal will include $21.5 billion in Nvidia stock and $12 billion in cash, including $2 billion payable at signing.

Softbank acquired Arm in 2016 for $31.4 billion in 2016 in one of its largest acquisitions ever. Arm is best known as the designer of an architecture used in chips in most mobile phones, including the Qualcomm chips used in most Android phones, as well as Apple's iPhone. Apple is also planning to shift its Mac computers [cnbc.com] from Intel chips to an Arm-based design.

Nvidia, whose chips are widely used to support graphics and artificial intelligence applications, including for self-driving vehicles, pledged that it would "continue Arm's open-licensing model and customer neutrality."

Interest in RISC-V set to skyrocket again.

Also at Bloomberg [bloomberg.com], The Verge [theverge.com], Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com], and Wccftech [wccftech.com].

Previously: Nvidia's Market Cap Rises Above Intel's [soylentnews.org]
Nvidia Considering Acquisition of ARM for Over $32 Billion [soylentnews.org]

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