Feb 15, 2021 And even then there will be reluctance to see the sale occur A large number of large companies have all piled on, urging the authorities to investigate A drawn-out process looks likely Back in September 2020, chip specialist Nvidia agreed to acquire British chip designer Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion. It was bound to be a controversial move and much has happened since then, not least a further rise in international distrust on the technology front. The result being that the vulnerabilities of a globalised IT ecosystem with specialists in one country providing key technology to important players in another country - or to a company with a diametrically opposed business model - are now all too apparent.