There has been a lot of talk about NVIDIA purchasing ARM. The most recent chatter on that is that a deal already would be in final stages and that after the summer announcements could be made. 

One big question remains though, Why is ARM being sold? Softbank has purchased of the company just a four years of years ago for a whopping $32 billion, however as it seems, they paid the premium price for ARM, and it has been a to large investment for them to make sense as newstatesmen reports. CEO of Arm Holdings Tudor Brown talked to the Financial Times and stated SoftBank had invested too much in Arm. That means the company also does not have the stretch for deep investments needed resulting in unsatisfactory financial results.

Bloomberg now indicates that the acquisition talks between Softbank and Nvidia already are in very high-level stages, the deal could even be closed right after the Summer. Talks are just talks though,  selling to Nvidia isn’t certain deal, Softbank’s founder Masayoshi Son has said that an Arm IPO before 2023 is another potential option for the company. Also if there where a deal, a lot IP would be moving towards a USA based company, and that might be problem legislation wise. 

Meanwhile co-founder, Hermann Hauser is hoping the UK government will intervene to help the firm go public and remain an independent British company. However, in our opinion, Hauser should have probably made that point four years ago, when Softbank help $32 billion in front of their nose, which they all gladly accepted.

NVIDIA Could Purchase ARM after the Summer already