Washington 

Nvidia Corp's planned purchase of British chip designer Arm seems to have raised several eyebrows. After Samsung and Amazon, now Tesla has also raised its concern over the deal.   

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Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk has signaled competition concerns over $40 billion Nvidia-Arm deal, a Telegraph report said on Saturday, citing multiple sources. 

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Earlier, smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc also lodged protest against the deal with the US authorities, the report added.   

The US Federal Trade Commission had also started an in-depth probe into the takeover. The findings may come in some weeks, as per the report.

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In June, Nvidia Corp submitted an application with the Chinese competition regulators to review a takeover of UK chip designer Arm, the Financial Times had reported, citing people familiar with the matter.   

According to Chinese antitrust lawyers, the application sets in motion a period of scrutiny that could take up to 18 months, the report added.   

Nvidia had also said it expects to close the Arm acquisition by March 2022, after having struck a deal with Japan's SoftBank Group in September 2020.   

(With inputs from agencies)