Qualcomm, Microsoft and Google oppose the sale of ARM to NVidia

Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm present new opposition to ARM’s sale to NVIDia, according to a report by Bloomberg. The three companies have approached a number of antitrust authorities around the world, raising concerns about the possibility of impairing market competitiveness if the acquisition is approved and executed.

The deal between Anvidia and ARM was closed in September 2020, when it was agreed that the company would acquire ARM for $ 40 billion from Softbank. However, in transactions of this magnitude, there are always considerable time gaps between the announcement of the acquisition agreement and the completion of the actual acquisition of a company, when Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm actually enter in an attempt to block and cancel the transaction, which is currently under investigation by US competition authorities. , England, Europe and China.

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The companies’ main concern is that Anvidia may harm market competition by controlling intellectual property and developing technologies developed by the British company ARM, which are used not only in the cellular field but also in computing and more, despite the fact that Anvidia’s founder and CEO Huang) clarified that ARM’s business model will remain as it was, along with neutrality in working with its various customers and the continued licensing of the use of ARM technology in the various products.

The huge deal between ARM and Anvidia is one of the most important and large deals in recent years, given the importance of ARM and its technology to the market. It remains to be seen whether the antitrust authorities in the various countries will indeed approve the actual execution of the transaction or whether they will support the position of Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm that the acquisition of ARM could harm competition in the market.