By @tomshardware
Publication Date: 2026-02-18 14:24:00
Nvidia has sold off the last of its shares in Arm Holdings, some six years after it attempted to buy the company outright for $40 billion, but was stopped by EU and UK regulators, as Bloomberg reports. This amounts to 1.1 million shares worth an estimated $140 million. Though this draws to a close Nvidia’s ownership ambitions, it won’t end the partnership, with Nvidia and ARM still set to work together on its Arm-based CPUs, including in its Vera Rubin platform.
The actual share disposal took place sometime in the last few months of 2025, with only the filing now revealing the divestment of Nvidia’s ARM holdings. It feels a little anticlimactic after talk of such enormous deals not so long ago. But in 2026, that deal has in turn been dwarfed by the scale of investments among the major tech firms, often reaching into the hundreds of billions.
The deal that never was
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In September 2020, while the world was grappling with the global pandemic, Nvidia was making moves to purchase British software and semiconductor design firm, Arm Holdings. Its majority shareholder, Softbank – the same Japanese investment firm that has invested so heavily in OpenAI and many other AI players approved the deal, and the agreed figure was set at $40 billion….
