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Our government continues to show how corrupt and bad it really is. It'll be super funny when Qualcomm buys ARM instead because that's a-okay and all that. Edit: you know Qualcomm has already said that's exactly what they're going to do right? Maybe the Nvidia CEO needs to kill a goat with a stun gun and feed it to the FTC to send the right message? That seemed to work really well for Zuck.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/qualcomm-offers-to-invest-in...



You realize that its not only the FTC involved here.

The UK is already investigating as well, see https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/16/22785832/nvidias-arm-acq...

The EU is also investigating: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/27/22266504/nvidia-arm-deal...

Any one of these regulators can both delay and/or stop and/or change the conditions of the proposed merger.

It's highly likely that any other direct acquisition of ARM would get the same investigation, no matter who the acquirer is.


And I get why the UK is concerned. Their regulators caught flack for allowing foreign companies to buy Deepmind and ARM. But I don't get the United States government's motivation here yet. The story will come out in time.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/13/britain-to-protect-tech-firm...


>Edit: you know Qualcomm has already said that's exactly what they're going to do right?

Well that's not what your link says


Okay if you trust that buying an unspecified stake doesn't lead to an acquisition once the smoke has cleared you have a very different worldview than I do. We will have to agree to disagree.

It does seem like the next 100 years is just more of what's been going on the past decade and it seems pretty grim for the customer and great for the corporations as they duke it out with each other much like what this seems to really be about.


I don't need to trust it, the rules for acquisition are much more strict than the rules for part ownership.


Fascinating... So many strange acquisitions and this is the one that triggers all the red flags. The story will come out eventually and I think it's going to be a doozy.




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