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Business / Corporate Sep 14, 2020

SoftBank Group selling Arm to Nvidia for up to $40 billion

If approved, it will be one of the biggest merger-acquisitions in the world this year and promises to propel Nvidia to the forefront of the semiconductor sector.

Business / Corporate Sep 13, 2020

SoftBank nears $40 billion deal to sell Arm, WSJ reports

After weeks of negotiations, the deal to sell the British semiconductor designer to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia may be struck early next week.

Business / Corporate Aug 11, 2020

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son mulls sale of British chip firm Arm

Son revealed that SoftBank has already been in talks over Arm but declined to give further details.

Business / Corporate Aug 1, 2020

Nvidia in advanced talks to buy chipmaker Arm from SoftBank

The deal could be the largest ever in the semiconductor industry but may also trigger regulatory scrutiny.

Business / Corporate Jul 24, 2020

Nvidia eyes largest-ever chip deal in pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm

Arm Ltd., the chip designer that’s one of SoftBank Group Corp.’s most prized holdings, is attracting takeover interest from Nvidia Corp. in what could become the largest-ever semiconductor deal, people with knowledge of the matter said. Nvidia, the world’s largest graphics chipmaker, made an approach ...

Business / Corporate Jul 14, 2020

SoftBank exploring sale or IPO of chip company Arm, sources say

by Giles Turner and Sarah Mcbride

If it pursues a listing, the chip-design company could go public as soon as next year, accelerating a timeline laid out by SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in 2018.

Business / Corporate May 23, 2019

Panasonic to suspend supply of some parts to Huawei in wake of U.S. ban

Panasonic Corp. has decided to halt the supply of some components to Huawei Technologies Co., officials said Thursday, the latest sign that last week's U.S. blacklisting of the Chinese telecoms giant is affecting major Japanese firms. Panasonic is still examining which product shipments run counter ...

Business / Corporate Feb 8, 2018

ARM embraces tech revolution under SoftBank and loses money

It's an accepted belief among tech startups that it's OK to grow fast at the sake of profits. But what if the company is 27 years old? Under the new ownership of SoftBank Group Corp., the once relatively conservative U.K. chip company ARM Holdings PLC ...

Business / Corporate Mar 9, 2017

SoftBank to sell 25% stake in Arm to Vision Fund, sources say

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to sell a 25 percent stake in ARM Holdings PLC to a technology fund it is creating with Saudi Arabia after lead investors expressed a desire to include the chip-maker in their portfolio, according to people familiar with the matter. The ...

Business / Corporate Jul 19, 2016

Why SoftBank is spending ¥3.3 trillion on a U.K. chipmaker

by Adam Satariano

Inside nearly every smartphone, tablet, e-reader and smartwatch are tiny microprocessors that tell the machine what to do. Small pulses of energy move from a gadget's battery through millions of tiny transistors, triggering commands and responses in nanoseconds, be it playing games, posting to ...