I wrote:
So, SoftBank has found a buyer for ARM, and it’s graphics-card maker Nvidia <https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/14/nvida_arm_acquisition/>.
One of the commenters on that article linked to this BBC report <https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54142567>, where a couple of ARM’s original co-founders raise some concerns about the deal. Hermann Hauser, in particular, says "If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the CFIUS [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations..." which means the US Government gets to decide who can or can’t license the technology. Given the current tensions between the US and China, just for example, this kind of political throwing-of-weight-around could drive many major markets into the arms of more liberally-licensed competitors, like RISC-V.