Is anyone here surprised by this outcome? That being said the 1.25 billion dollar deposit that Arm is keeping has got to soften the blow.

SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial value of $40 billion, the US chipmaker’s acquisition of British design firm ARM would have been the largest semiconductor deal on record. But regulators around the world have long raised concerns about the deal, eventually leading to its collapse on Tuesday.