NVIDIA's attempted Arm acquisition
NVIDIA's attempted Arm acquisition is an acquisition announced 2020-09-13, valued at $40.0B, currently terminated. NVIDIA's proposed purchase of Arm from SoftBank was abandoned in 2022 amid global regulatory opposition.
Deal record from the wafergraph deals corpus · every field traces to the sources listed below · page data as of 2026-09-05
- Type
- acquisition
- Announced
- 2020-09-13
- Status
- terminated
- Value
- $40.0B
- Parties
- NVIDIA (acquirer), Arm Holdings (target), SoftBank (seller)
- Source confidence
- high
The companies involved
NVIDIA
Dominant AI accelerator and GPU designer; also networking via Mellanox line. leader in GPU & AI Accelerators, headquartered in United States, market cap $5.56T. 104 tracked suppliers, 45 tracked customers · supply-chain risk
Arm Holdings
CPU architecture licensed in virtually every smartphone and most edge devices. leader in Semiconductor IP Licensing, headquartered in United Kingdom, market cap $269.2B. 1 tracked suppliers, 11 tracked customers
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Sources
Cite as: wafergraph, “NVIDIA's attempted Arm acquisition”, https://wafergraph.com/deal/nvidia_arm/ (data as of 2026-09-05).
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