Merge Arm with Graphcore, says co-founder

The co-founder of Arm has urged ministers to back a merger between the chip designer and one of Britain’s most promising start-ups instead of allowing a US takeover. Hermann Hauser, part of the team that established Arm in Cambridge in 1990, writes in The Sunday Telegraph that rather than approve Nvidia’s $40bn (£30bn) acquisition, the Government should engineer a combination with Graphcore, based in Bristol. Mr Hauser, known as the “godfather” of chip technology in