By Stephen Nellis, Josh Horwitz and Hyunjoo Jin
SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp's $40 billion agreement to acquire Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group Corp <9984.T> is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia's chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest emerging in South Korea and China within hours of the deal's announcement.
Arm has unparalleled reach as a supplier of designs and intellectual property to most of the global semiconductor industry, licensing its technology to customers such as Intel Corp <INTC.O>, Qualcomm Inc <QCOM.O> and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> who increasingly compete with Nvidia.
Arm's open approach of licensing its designs to all comers has turned the 160 billion chips sold based on its technology into a huge ecosystem of devices from smart phones to smart toasters.
Nvidia's deal would ...
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