Arm is a core supplier of architecture technology to most semiconductor companies. Its Arm instruction set is at the core of nearly all mobile processors powering smartphones, including those made by Apple and Android devices that use Qualcomm chips. On November 16, Patently Apple posted a report titled " The U.K. Government orders a Phase 2 full-blown Investigation into Nvidia s takeover of Cambridge Chip Designer Arm " Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission today sued to block U.S. chip supplier Nvidia Corp.’s $40 billion acquisition of U.K. chip design provider Arm Ltd.