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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. 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. The Tegra K1 powered NVidia Shield tablet is now official and will be priced competitively (starts at $299) and will have an optional wireless controller. The Shield tablet will be NVidia's opportunity to showcase its most powerful mobile procesor, the Tegra K1. Earlier today, NVidia announced that they will be rolling out a firmware update for their popular Android-based gaming console which brings all the good stuff that Android KitKat has to offer, as well as a new feature called Remote GameStream. Speaking of additional features, the firmware update will also enable the NVidia Shield to support wireless mice/keyboards which will certainly come in handy when the Shield is on Console Mode. Along with the announcement of the upcoming Android KitKat update, which is expected to be seeded on the 2nd of April, NVidia is also giving the Shield a temporary $50 price cut until the end of next month. Read more in our articles including "Softbank's Arm deal with NVIDIA collapses" and "NVidia Shield Tablet with Tegra K1 starts at $299".