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Historic chip industry deal between Softbank, Nvidia crumbles
Feb 8, 2022

Historic chip industry deal between Softbank, Nvidia crumbles

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Also today: The Biden administration is attempting to restore power to unions, which has been ebbing for several decades. Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has nixed the sale of British chip design firm Arm to the American chip manufacturer Nvidia. The deal would have been the largest in the semiconductor chip industry.

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