Arm exec says 'firewalls' will protect customer info after Nvidia deal

The $40 billion deal announced last month would reshape the global semiconductor sector because Arm has long acted as a neutral player, supplying intellectual property to Apple Inc , Qualcomm Incand many others that goes into chips for most of the world's smart phones and many other kinds of chips.Nvidia has displaced Intel Corpas the biggest U.S. chip company by market capitalization on the strength of its data center chips for artificial intelligence.