Did NVidia give up when the merger/acquisition of ARM was denied? And Apple, look I get that the MBAs view PC/Notebooks as a non-growth industry, but it is sti

Did NVidia give up when the merger/acquisition of ARM was denied? And Apple, look I get that the MBAs view PC/Notebooks as a non-growth industry, but it is still huge, and Apple may be scraping the barrel on iPhones. Why sit on hardware AND OS that is generally better than everyone elses in the consumer space?