When Nvidia announced it was buying Arm for a whopping $40 billion, it understandably shocked a number of tech giants, as it’s bound to change the semiconductor landscape as we know it and extend Arm’s influence beyond smartphones and the Internet of Things. Even the company’s co-founder, Hermann Hauser, believes it to be a bad idea, since Arm will most likely be unable to retain its neutrality as most of its licensees are competitors of Nvidia.
Nvidia told regulators in the UK, US, EU, and China that it is committed to maintaining Arm’s open-licensing model and customer neutrality, but many of the companies that depend on that model aren’t convinced.
