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Nvidia and Arm call off $80B merger and Arm CEO resigns

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia and Arm are calling off their $80 billion merger, according to announcements from the companies tonight. Arm CEO Simon Segars has resigned.

The deal was one of the boldest moves by two industry leaders to define the future of computing, but it turned out to be too bold as regulators around the world had antitrust concerns about the deal.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.