The ARM's acquisition of ARM already planned by Nvidia, on whose developments around microchip architectures, among others Samsung, Qualcomm and Apple produce their chips and pay royalties for it has failed. This reports among others Spiegel Online or also Ars Technica. Sayings about whether one of both arms is tuned, we spare ourselves at this point - but certainly none of the two companies will look at much worse times because of the non-acquisition. The main reason for the failure of the takeover are competitive concerns. Nvidia plus arm = too powerful An obstacle to the acquisition was the extremely large market power generated by the merger - apparently authorities that control competition already spoke out of the scenes, whether such a takeover is even approved. This also suggests the official message from Arm and Nvidia. NVIDIA has apparently had to repel certain other areas first to weaken itself and do not overpower in the sum. This was due for NVIDIA to high price, and...