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Petition to stop Nvidia acquiring ARM

HarvDaMan
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Hi there everyone, i just made a petition on the UK government website with the aim to stop the sale of ARM to Nvidia and maybe prompt the government to buy ARM to maintain its neutrality.
If you are a UK citizen or live in the UK you are allowed to sign this petition, If you agree with my aims please sign as if enough signatures are collected it will be discussed by the government.

 

My petition:

Intervene with the acquisition of ARM by Nvidia and make ARM state run.

 

Nvidia plans to buy ARM (a semiconductor chip designing company) based here in the UK. This would give Nvidia unprecedented control over technologies licensed out to almost every tech company on the planet consisting of Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, Amazon and many more.The acquisition could lead to market manipulation and a monopoly. Almost every mobile device contains ARM technology in it so it is crucial that ARM remains a neutral company to ensure continued innovation.

 

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Make it state run?  Ummmmmmm.  

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Just now, nick name said:

Make it state run?  Ummmmmmm.  

Ye, its not a great solution but id rather have a government that is held accountable own arm to keep it neutral than have Nvidia just cutting companies they dont like off from ARMs technology 2 years down the road.

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We don't need a petition.

 

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4 minutes ago, nick name said:

Make it state run?  Ummmmmmm.  

Maybe not, but perhaps the UK State could owned about ~20% of ARM or so. I'm really suprised that Nations don't outright Foreign Corporations from buying land and native companies in those countries.  

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8 minutes ago, HarvDaMan said:

Ye, its not a great solution but id rather have a government that is held accountable own arm to keep it neutral than have Nvidia just cutting companies they dont like off from ARMs technology 2 years down the road.

Please name 1 government in this Universe that is accountable...

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22 minutes ago, HarvDaMan said:

Ye, its not a great solution but id rather have a government that is held accountable own arm to keep it neutral than have Nvidia just cutting companies they dont like off from ARMs technology 2 years down the road.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

A business is designed to make money. They way to make money from owning ARM is to sell the IP to as many people as possible.

For 40 BILLION dollars, Nvidia has no plans whatsoever to damage ARM or restrict who is buying it's products (outside of the restrictions required by ITAR, anyway. But that's just things like "don't sell computers and weapons to Iran and North Korea"...). At that cost they DESPERATELY need it to keep producing as much profit as possible. Considering that ARM generates roughly only about 2 billion dollars a year, Nvidia needs it to keep producing them profit at the same or greater rate for 20 years to pay off the acquisition.

 

Also, just another consideration. Nvidia is buying ARM from SoftBank. An investment company who's only technology holding was 24% of T-Mobile, and who only bought ARM to flip the company to make money. They had to exit ARM early because they made some very terrible investments and started hemorrhaging money. At least Nvidia has proven that they can run a business that makes computer processors, and run it well.

 

On the other hand having a Five Eyes founder controlling ARM is basically handing them everything on a silver platter. Imagine every phone processor having an encryption "back door" (something which five eyes actually admits they want. Just this year there have been 2 bills introduced to the US congress and one new law that the European governments were talking about that would have done just this). Seriously. Having a Five Eyes government controlling ARM is the biggest cyber security mistake we could make.

ENCRYPTION IS NOT A CRIME

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6 minutes ago, SkenderTV said:

Split ownership of arm between Nvidia and AMD. Problem solved.

why AMD? why not Intel? why not broadcom? or Microsoft?

 

ARM really should be a wholly owned self sufficient company that is not tied to any other company that is a competitor to its current customer base.

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19 minutes ago, DavidKalinowski said:

why AMD? why not Intel? why not broadcom? or Microsoft?

 

ARM really should be a wholly owned self sufficient company that is not tied to any other company that is a competitor to its current customer base.

Screw it, let Wal-Mart buy ARM!

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16 minutes ago, SkenderTV said:

Screw it, let Wal-Mart buy ARM!

I used to work for walmart (13 years) they would destroy ARM...as soon as it didnt meet sales targets it would get thrown out like leftover sushi...

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