Digital world-beater Arm needs a helping hand from Boris Johnson | John Naughton

The UK government is finally taking a look at the sale of the chip designer to US firm Nvidia, but why not just buy a controlling interest?Last September, Nvidia, the American manufacturer of graphics processing chips, and the Japanese company SoftBank announced an agreement under which Nvidia would acquire the British chip designer Arm from SoftBank for $40bn. Since SoftBank had acquired Arm in 2016 for $32bn, you could say that a 25% profit on a five-year investment isn’t to be sneezed a