Over 360 billion yuan, British media said NVIDIA acquired arm as soon as possible in late summer

At the beginning of Softbank’s announcement of the sale of arm, few people believed that NVIDIA would buy arm. Now, this is about to become a reality. British media reported that they were the only negotiating party at present, and the acquisition could be negotiated as soon as the end of summer. < / P > < p > the direct reason for Softbank’s sale of arm is the huge loss of last year. Many investment plans including Wework have resulted in an operating loss of 1.35 trillion yen (about 12.5 billion US dollars), which can be recovered by selling arm. Softbank spent 24 billion pounds (about US $32 billion) to acquire arm in 2016. Softbank CEO sun Zhengyi hopes that the selling price will not be less than 40 billion pounds (about 52 billion US dollars), about 363.7 billion yuan, which is absolutely sky high. Softbank hired a well-known investment bank, Goldman Sachs, to help find a seller. In April, Goldman found apple, hoping to persuade apple to buy arm, but Apple refused. Subsequently, Goldman Sachs did not give up and hoped to form a consortium composed of Samsung, apple and NVIDIA to buy arm, but it failed. Currently, NVIDIA is the only interested buyer. NVIDIA has entered the arm exclusive negotiation period and will be completed by the end of the summer at the earliest, but both sides declined to comment. < / P > < p > in short, under the current situation, NVIDIA’s acquisition of arm company will probably become a reality, at least in terms of the wishes of both sides. Softbank can sell a good price, NVIDIA can realize its own CPU dream, enter the IP licensing market, and replace arm’s GPU authorization with its own geforce. However, for other arm customers, NVIDIA’s acquisition of arm is not good news, including apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, Huawei, etc. after all, NVIDIA is also a competitor, and Lao Huang’s style is well understood by everyone