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.

A recent assessment of the deal ordered by regulators reportedly contains worrying implications for national security.

Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell are Arm's first customers to publicly support the takeover.

The system-on-a-chip maker had been scoring points on scalability and performance, with its Neoverse N1-based Altra series. If Altra truly is a Xeon-slayer, why take it out of the fight?

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.

Confidential computing in Armv9, called Arm CCA, builds on TrustZone secure enclave technology in mobile chips.

Its strategy now is to emphasize customizability and optimization for high-performance processor cores – convenient if you may be acquired by Nvidia.

“We want to support our thriving UK tech industry and welcome foreign investment, but it is appropriate that we properly consider the national security implications of a transaction like this.”