{"id":14356,"date":"2021-10-28T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=14356"},"modified":"2021-11-26T21:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T02:56:06","slug":"eu-launches-4-month-investigation-into-nvidia-and-arm-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/eu-launches-4-month-investigation-into-nvidia-and-arm-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Launches 4 Month Investigation Into Nvidia And ARM Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, EU antitrust regulators announced a four-month investigation into the nature of Nvidia&#8217;s $54 billion bid for British chipmaker ARM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Regulators also pointed out that the deal could potentially harm competition by offering less choice, leading to higher prices and ultimately less innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">According to the EU&#8217;s Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, there are fears that the deal could affect Arm&#8217;s neutrality, as the company licenses its designs to a wide range of companies, including Apple, Samsung and Qualcomm, many of which compete with each other and Nvidia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">There are fears that having Nvidia control Arm may result in Nvidia&#8217;s competitors being put at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The EU will also examine how the deal could affect the way competitors share information with Arm and whether Nvidia could change Arm&#8217;s research and development outcomes to make its product more profitable, to the detriment of those who use Arm&#8217;s other technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The deadline for a decision by EU antitrust authorities is March 15.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span class=\"s1\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/eu-investigate-nvidias-54-bln-arm-bid-says-deal-may-harm-competition-2021-10-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU antitrust regulators announced a four-month investigation into the nature of Nvidia&#8217;s $54 billion bid for British chipmaker ARM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14385,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}