https://tech.newstatesman.com/business/hermann-hauser-nvidia-destroy-arm

SoftBank is in advanced talks with US chip company Nvidia to sell Arm – with a price in the region of £32bn reportedly being thrown around. But Nvidia’s purchase of the Cambridge-based chip designer would not only strike a blow to the UK’s technological sovereignty, but would result in the destruction of Arm itself, Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser has claimed.

Nvidia recently overtook Intel as the most valuable microprocessor company in the world, and its great wealth right now provides it a unique opportunity, says Hauser. “They are the semiconductor company that can buy Arm to destroy it – and it is very much in its interest to destroy Arm because they [would] gain a lot more than the 40bn that they pay for it,” he claims.