Nvidia Corp Scraps $40 Billion Deal to Buy Arm from SoftBank


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US-China Semiconductor War US-China Semiconductor War SoftBank Group Corp's sale of Arm Ltd to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp has collapsed, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, adding that Arm would plan for an IPO instead of the sale, which would have been worth as much as $80 billion. The deal, announced in 2020, has faced several regulatory hurdles. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued to block it in December, arguing that competition in the nascent markets for chips in self-driving cars and a new category of networking chips could be hurt if Nvidia carried out the...