Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, January 25th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Surprised, not surprised, sources are telling Bloomberg that

NVIDIA is planning to abandon its arm acquisition as regulators scrutinized the deal.

Sources say that Soft Bank is preparing an IPO for arm if the deal doesn't happen.

Invidia has told partners that it doesn't expect a transaction to close according to one person who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

Softbank, meanwhile, is stepping up preparations for an arm initial public offering as an alternative to the

invidia takeover another person said the purchase poised to

become the biggest semiconductor deal in history when it was

announced in September 2020 has drawn a fierce backlash from regulators and the chip

industry including arms own customers. The US Federal Trade Commission

sued to stop the transaction in December arguing that NVIDIA would become too

powerful if it gained control over arms chip designs.

The acquisition also faces resistance in China where authorities are inclined to block the takeover

if it wins approvals elsewhere according to one person.

But they don't expect it to get that far.

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