Regulatory agencies from China and the European Union might oppose this heavily, but this is a problem of the future as it traditionally takes 18 to 24 months to finish a significant merger.

An exciting alliance that includes Intel, Qualcomm, Tesla, and a few other major players in the chip market are in talks to take coordinated action and voice their concerns to the US and worldwide authorities. The public announcement is expected relatively soon.

Apple was part of the talks, but Apple might drop out from this exciting group as it might have a separate deal with ARM–Nvidia on the plate.

AMD and Nvidia have used both the Nvidia GPU technology conference as well as the ARM dev summit to give some evidence of how great all this will be. We will address these talks in a separate article.  

The current US-China relationship, Huawei issues, and US EU relations are severely clouding the deal. More importantly, ARM licensees don’t want a chip company as dominant as Nvidia to get to see their technology and decide the future of the ARM roadmap.

Every big ARM licensee started looking into alternatives, where Risc-V stands out.