tmay said:

GeorgeBMac said:

The chances of this merger taking place have passed the zero mark and are into negative territory -- there are just too many hurdles from every corner of the globe in its path -- and not enough incentive to ignore them or override them.

But the fact that the UK does not trust the U.S. is both hilarious and telling.

... The U.S. must address that concern -- not with respect to this failing merger, but from its underlying basis.

Trust is the foundation that both companies and countries rely on.   When that fails everything begins to fail.

You are completely misreading why the UK is stating that the sale of ARM is a "national security concern", and it isn't about Nvidia being a U.S. company, so much as the UK wants to retain its "technical sovereignty".

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/sale-cambridge-firm-tech-giant-21224281

Concerns over national security have led the government to consider blocking the deal, according to Bloomberg, while another source stated that it would welcome another review into the merger.

In response to suggestions of a government block, Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner said: “I would urge the government to listen carefully to the findings of the Competition and Markets Authority and other experts in the field. 

“I have always called for legal guarantees on Cambridge jobs, but this proposed deal also has far wider implications. 

“There are potential risks to national security as I pointed out when I secured a debate in parliament, and the important issue of tech sovereignty.

“Arm is a strategic national asset and a UK company with global dominance. Semiconductors underpin our critical national infrastructure.

“I am pleased after two long years ministers seem to be coming round to these arguments but they need to come to a decision because endless delay is sapping morale among staff and risks setting Arm back as global competitors move forward.”

Well, the company is in the UK but it belongs to the SoftBank Group;  a Japanese company.
Moreover, Apple's chip designs are already more advanced than ARM so...

My gut feeling tells me that there will be BIG problems if Nvidia is allowed to buy ARM.

In any case I believe that Apple is only using the Instruction Set Architecture from ARM and not the the silicon design.  Although they could use the ARM silicon if their own silicon designs were not way more advanced than ARM.

In fact the original design for Apple's chip by PA-Semi were called PWRficient and were designed to use the PowerPC Instruction Set from IBM but Apple switched to the ARM instruction set after the purchase.  See presentation below...


Here is another article on Apple's license.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10190521

Profitability is what matters.
Go Apple! go go go...

Of course the members need to hide their biased and crooked communications.
Just look at the name of the group:

"Coalition for App Fairness"

Go for it intel.  Get some good Engineers from RPI. ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute )