Share the QR code with wechat scanning code < / P > < p > to friends and circles of friends < / P > < p > February 8. On Monday, local time, American chip giant NVIDIA and Japan Softbank Group officially announced the termination of the previous acquisition of British chip design company arm. Despite the great efforts of both parties, the two sides agreed to terminate the agreement because major regulatory challenges hindered the completion of the transaction. Arm will now start preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) < p > Huang Renxun, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: "Arm has a bright future, and we will continue to support their technology licensing in the coming decades. Arm is the center of important developments in the field of computing. Although we are not a company, we will work closely with arm. Son Zhengyi's huge investment has expanded arm's CPU business from client computing to supercomputing, cloud computing, AI and robotics. I expect arm to become The most important supplier of CPU architecture in the next decade. " < p > Softbank group also said it would cooperate with arm to prepare for the listing of arm in the financial year ending March 31, 2023. Softbank insists that arm's technology and intellectual property rights will continue to be the core of the development of mobile computing and AI < p > Softbank group representative director, company director Sun Zhengyi, chairman and CEO, said: "Arm is not only becoming the innovation center of the mobile phone revolution, but also in the fields of cloud computing, automobile, Internet of things and metauniverse, and has entered the second growth stage. We will seize this opportunity to start preparing for the listing of arm and make greater progress. I would like to thank Huang Renxun and NVIDIA's talented team for uniting these two great companies Together and wish them success. " < p > NVIDIA and Softbank group have announced that they have reached a final acquisition agreement on September 13, 2020. According to the terms of the agreement, Softbank will retain $1.25 billion prepaid by NVIDIA, which will be included in profit in the fourth quarter, while NVIDIA will retain arm's license for up to 20 years In September 2020, ARP's acquisition was regarded as the largest in the history of the semiconductor industry, including its own customers. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit in December 2021 to block the deal on the grounds that NVIDIA would become too powerful if it gained control of ARM chip design < p > arm's sale is under strict scrutiny because its chips are designed for many fields, from mobile phones to cars to factory equipment, which makes "staying neutral" the basis of its business model. Many of the world's largest technology companies rely on arm's technology. They are worried that they may lose unrestricted access under NVIDIA's control < p > the technology giants united against the acquisition. According to people familiar with the matter, groups including Qualcomm, Microsoft, Intel and Amazon have provided information to regulators around the world, which they believe is enough to stifle the deal < p > this acquisition has also caused differences within NVIDIA. Most people in the company seem to have accepted the fact that the acquisition failed, but others believe that management can use FTC's review to prove the benefits of the transaction. However, Stacy Rasgon, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said that in the end, NVIDIA might be doing well even if it didn't succeed in acquiring arm < p > Rasgon said in the Research Report: "although the acquisition of arm can bring many benefits, we don't think NVIDIA has to acquire it. This transaction can help NVIDIA enter the field of data center chips, but even if the acquisition fails, the company may continue to strive in this direction." < p > within Softbank, some people want the acquisition to succeed, especially considering that the rising share price of NVIDIA makes the transaction more valuable. However, others at Softbank are more willing to seek arm listing earlier, and the chip industry is still considered attractive to investors. After all, concerns about the economic slowdown are increasing < p > when opposing the deal, companies such as Qualcomm, Intel and Google said NVIDIA could not maintain arm's independence because it itself was arm's customer. NVIDIA, the world's largest graphics chip manufacturer, competes with Intel in the field of server processors and is expanding into new areas, which will enable it to compete directly with many other arm licensed manufacturers < p > < / P > < p > NVIDIA also provides chips to enterprises such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft azure to provide the technology needed to process artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in the data center. At the same time, these companies are also developing their own chips. NVIDIA is both their supplier and potential competitor. (small) < / P > < p >