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In a report by Reuters, Softbank's sale of British semiconductor and software design company Arm to American GPU designer NVIDIA will no longer push through. Instead, Arm will plan for a USD 80 billion IPO. NVIDIA's acquisition of Arm would provide the former a big advantage to compete with rivals, namely Intel and AMD. Reuters said that NVIDIA declined to comment, while Arm and SoftBank are yet to respond. Japan's Softbank has made an offer of $32 billion to buy mobile chipmaker, ARM Holdings Inc. ARM licenses its chip designs to big brands such as Samsung, Apple, NVidia, Qualcomm, Huawei/HiSilicon and many others. ARM usually licenses processor designs to companies like Qualcomm or Nvidia, who get chips made from contract chip makers like GlobalFoundries and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.). These chips are based on the design and architecture of ARM chips like the Cortex A53, Cortex A72 and A73. Read more in our articles including "Softbank's Arm deal with NVIDIA collapses" and "ARM chip maker to be bought for $32 billion by Softbank".