Welcome to the Tech Meam Bright Home for Friday, December 3rd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Another tech deal goes on the Death Watch, but this time it's Invidia NVIDIA and arm and this time I think it's

for reels. Google is probably working on its own smart watch. DD is the first

Chinese stock to D-list in the West, Instagram is encouraging you to create a Finsta account

and, of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The US Federal... world of Tech. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing to Block InVidia's proposed acquisition of

Arm, arguing the chip deal is anti-competitive, quoting the Wall Street Journal.

The lawsuit marks the beginning of what is likely to be an aggressive antitrust campaign

by the FTC under the leadership of Chairwoman Lena Khan, a progressive tapped by President

Biden in June to lead the agency. It also represents the latest action by regulators

to stop a blockbuster chip deal. The FTC's lawsuit filed in its own administrative court

alleges the acquisition would give NVIDIA unlawful control over

computing technology and designs that rivals need to develop their own competing

chips. If the deal were allowed, the combined firm could stifle next-generation technologies,

including ones used to run data centers and driver assistance systems in cars, the FTC alleges. Arm, owned by Tokyo-based Soft Bank Group, referred questions to NVIDIA.

The Commission currently composed of two Democrats and two Republicans voted four to nothing to file the lawsuit, adding a new layer of

trouble for a deal that has been met with widespread regulatory skepticism.

This isn't the first time regulators have stepped in to stop a massive chip deal. The US in 2018 scuttled

broadcoms attempted 117 billion dollar takeover of another chip giant

Qualcomm on national security grounds. Qualcomm's 44 billion dollar purchase of Dutch chipmaker

NXP semiconductors fell apart in 2018 when China failed to give its regulatory

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