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    Nvidia’s ARM deal likely to spark huge chip industry backlash

    By Agency Staff14 September 2020

    Nvidia’s $40-billion agreement to acquire ARM is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia’s chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest already emerging in South Korea and China.

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    ByteDance abandoned the sale of TikTok in the US on Sunday to pursue a partnership with Oracle that it hopes will spare it a US ban while appeasing China’s government, people familiar with the matter said.

    Nvidia to buy chip designer ARM for $40-billion

    By Agency Staff14 September 2020

    Nvidia will buy UK-based chip designer ARM from Japan’s SoftBank Group for as much as US$40-billion, the companies said on Monday, in a deal set to reshape the global semiconductor landscape.

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    A good decade after Nokia’s mobile phone business suffered a fatal blow at the hands of the iPhone, the Finnish company is still feeding off a lucrative asset that it salvaged from the wreckage.

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