UK considers blocking Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm

Bloomberg reports the UK is considering blocking Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of Arm over national security concerns. Over 160 billion chips have been made for various devices based on designs from Arm. In recent years, the company has added AI accelerator chips to its lineup for neural network processing. "ARM is an incredible company and it employs some of the greatest engineering minds in the world. But we believe we can make ARM even more incredible and take it to even higher levels. We want to propel it -- and the UK -- to global AI leadership."