I think it's pretty clearly an anti-competitive move that could seriously harm the technology sector more than any other tech acquisition (probably).
I'm not surprised that many governments are investigating it, but I do not expect them to look capital in the eye and say "no".
What is interesting is that the UK government is investigating it on "defense" grounds. I could see a world in which they'd block the acquisition for that reason.
What do you think?
When's the last time a thing like this got blocked. Disney was forced to only buy the entertainment section of Fox and I can't remember if Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll has gone through fully or not yet. I can't remember the last time a big merger/acquisition was actually blocked because all of the regulation arms of the world governments have been stacked with people from the industries they're supposed to be regulating.
Military defense is the only reason I can see anything being blocked nowadays.
It's kinda weird because NVIDIA is a RISC-V member and was talking about using RISC-V for the controllers in their future GPUs.
It probably using it, most mobile devices user ARM processors. It's an incredibly efficient low voltage chipset. The raspberry pi uses it too.
Does the UK govt even have a say anymore? They should have stopped arm from being purchased by SoftBank if they wanted to have leverage
I don't know what they're legally able to do, but it's being investigated by the US, EU, China & South Korea at least, so I don't think it matters too much that it's not owned by a British company anymore