America’s Nvidia is putting down $40bn to buy Arm Holdings but opponents of the deal are already lining up. The proposed purchase of the British chip designer from Japan’s SoftBank has triggered alarm in multiple quarters, including from its co-founder and UK opposition politicians. Arm’s customers, too, are said to be wary. Critics are right to warn more is at stake than the future of a British technology group. As such, the deal should be carefully scrutinised by Boris Johnson’s government.
美国公司英伟达(Nvidia)要掏400亿美元买下安谋(Arm Holdings),反对者已经排起了长队。英伟达拟从日本企业软银(SoftBank)手中收购这家英国芯片设计公司的计划引起了多方的忧虑,其中包括安谋的一位联合创始人和英国政界的反对党人士。据说安谋的客户也感到不安。评论人士说的对,这笔交易不只关系到一家英国科技集团的未来。因此,鲍里斯•约翰逊(Boris Johnson)政府应该仔细审查这笔交易。