UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
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Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#2Terrible click-bait title. They are asking the competition watchdog (ARM is a UK company) to asses the takeover. This is no different from the FTC in the US reviewing a takeover to make sure it's not anticompetitive.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#3Terrible click-bait title. They are asking the competition watchdog (ARM is a UK company) to asses the takeover. This is no different from the FTC in the US reviewing a takeover to make sure it's not anticompetitive.
No. The first line of the article makes the rationale clear and its national security not competition.
> The UK government is to examine the sale of computer chip designer Arm Holdings to a US company on national security grounds.
Also see extensive earlier discussion.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#4I'm confused as to how this got posted. I posted exactly the same link yesterday. If I try to post a link and someone has already posted it - even a few days prior - the link doesn't get posted and I get redirected to comments on the existing link.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#5Terrible click-bait title. They are asking the competition watchdog (ARM is a UK company) to asses the takeover. This is no different from the FTC in the US reviewing a takeover to make sure it's not anticompetitive.
> A spokesperson for Nvidia said: "We do not believe that this transaction poses any material national security issues.
Seems like everyone involved is confused, then.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#6Terrible click-bait title. They are asking the competition watchdog (ARM is a UK company) to asses the takeover. This is no different from the FTC in the US reviewing a takeover to make sure it's not anticompetitive.
> A spokesperson for Nvidia said: "We do not believe that this transaction poses any material national security issues. Seems like everyone involved is confused, then.
They would say that of course.
Not sure that Nvidia would even be aware of some of the issues that might have led to this - they are national security issues so likely secret after all.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#7Good news, even if old. NVIDIA is openly hostile to the open source, unlike the ARM. That would have been the end of blobless Linux on ARM.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#8I'm confused as to how this got posted. I posted exactly the same link yesterday. If I try to post a link and someone has already posted it - even a few days prior - the link doesn't get posted and I get redirected to comments on the existing link.
The domain is different. bbc.com versus bbc.co.uk.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A spokesperson for Nvidia said: "We do not believe that this transaction poses any material national security issues. Seems like everyone involved is confused, then.
They would say that of course. Not sure that Nvidia would even be aware of some of the issues that might have led to this - they are national security issues so likely secret after all.
>Well, of course my buying of your couch doesn't pose a domestic security security issue. I just want it.
>It is hard to get someone to understand that which their paycheck depends on them not understanding. -Upton Sinclair
Seriously, I'm tempted to get this quote engraved on a golden plaque, and starting a site just to track examples of. It pops up far too much in the last decade or so, and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Re: UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A spokesperson for Nvidia said: "We do not believe that this transaction poses any material national security issues. Seems like everyone involved is confused, then.
They would say that of course. Not sure that Nvidia would even be aware of some of the issues that might have led to this - they are national security issues so likely secret after all.
Not making a commentary on whether they're correct but the guy I'm replying to seems to be totally wrong about the bone of contention.