ARM

With the deal dead, SoftBank is now falling back on an earlier plan: an IPO.

SoftBank, meanwhile, is stepping up preparations for an Arm initial public offering as an alternative to the Nvidia takeover, sources tell Bloomberg.

UK Competition authority has 24 weeks to investigate further

The EU’s analysis shows that the acquisition “could lead to restricted or degraded access” to Arm’s intellectual property, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement on Wednesday.

The cloud provider’s benchmark data compares Ampere’s Arm chips with AMD Rome and Milan and Intel Skylake.

Government approval in China and elsewhere may come later this year or in 2022, Jensen Huang said.

Whatever doubts still linger about Arm's future in the data center, they are quickly dissipating.