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After weeks of expectations and speculation, things become clear: Arm Holding will officially become the property of Nvidia in September. He confirmed the information Wall Street Jorunal.
According to the disclosed data, the value of the transaction is $ 40-45 billion, although only part of this amount will be paid in cash. The rest of the existing shareholders of Arm Holding, including the owner of the majority stake, Masayoshi Son, will receive in assets. Likewise, CEO Simon Segars, as well as CFOs Yoshimitsu Goto and Akshay Naheta.
This would suggest that Nvidia does not want to take out any loan to take over. Although it showed a reserve of $ 15 billion at the end of the last fiscal quarter, it acquired Mellanox ($ 7 billion) along the way and carried out an expensive premiere of new graphics chips in the Ampere architecture.
The purchase of Arm Holding is, however, a long-term investment. Especially in the market of servers and IoT solutions. Meanwhile, due to the licensing of the Arm software model, at least some of the costs should be recovered quite quickly.
But there are also concerns. The takeover of the British-Japanese Arm by the American Nvidia is de facto handing over another, very important part of the technology industry to the US authorities. Experts note that in this way, the United States will be able to harass hostile entities, such as Chinese Huawei, even more than before. It should be emphasized that the intellectual property of Arm Holding is used in the processors of almost all modern smartphones. Conclusions are easy to draw.
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