Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was revealed to have started sending requests for information about the acquisition to third parties and asked SoftBank, Nvidia and Arm to provide them with more information for follow-up investigations. This is another major country regulator to launch an investigation, following an investigation by EU and UK regulators earlier this month.
"It is a normal process for government regulators to investigate acquisitions." An NVIDIA insider told Yicai.com.
Analysts believe the review process for the acquisition could be long and difficult. "In the future computing world, the CPU is the base, the GPU is the acceleration, and the infiniband is the high-speed interconnection. Nvidia has the GPU, and has spent $7 billion to acquire Israel's Mellanox's network connectivity products. If it can get Arm's CPU capabilities, NVIDIA is a real full-stack computing manufacturer." An investor engaged in chips and other related technologies told Yicai.com.
