SoftBank now also confirms it is exploring to sell ARM

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/12/2020 08:45 AM | source: seekingalpha.com | 20 comment(s)

We've written that NVIDIA is eying the purchase of ARM, several other parties already have shown interest as well. The one company that has remained silent about it all is the owner, Softbank. And they've just confirmed that ARM indeed is for sale.

Masayoshi Son, CEO of the Japanese group SoftBank, confirmed during a conversation regarding their quarterly figures that the company is contemplating selling Arm. Selling the entire company or part of it is an option, says the CEO.

A second possibility is to bring the company to the stock exchange ahead of schedule. Arm previously has been listed on the stock exchange, but when SoftBank bought the chip designer back in 2016, the company withdrew itself from the stock exchange. It then committed itself to bring back stock exchange in the year 2023. That can be brought forward, says Son.

NVIDIA would be in advanced talks to purchase the company, but legislation might be an issue as NVIDIA would become very powerful, as ARM holds a number of cross-licenses and patents. A takeover of Arm by Nvidia could be difficult due to competition rules. Then again, that goes for any company due to the sheer size of ARM itself.

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moo100times
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#5817423 Posted on: 08/13/2020 12:24 AM

TSMC should buy ARM and lead the world.

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#5817449 Posted on: 08/13/2020 05:59 AM

Unfortunate as up until now Softbank had at least maintained a level of track record in lieu of prior ownership with ARM licenses. Skeptical of what will happen going forward to say the least.

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#5817515 Posted on: 08/13/2020 12:28 PM

TSMC should buy ARM and lead the world.

No thanks. It's already way too dangerous that there is only a single advanced fab, not even counting it's in Taiwan.

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#5817529 Posted on: 08/13/2020 01:34 PM

Softbank is not in good shape. They lost billions this year and are in no position to think of long term strategic investments. They need cash first and foremost to cover their positions during this tough time.

This^^ Softbank betted billions on some companies, like one who sets up offices for other companies or some other stupid crap, and they all flopped hard, leading to massive losses. Now they need to sell their most valuable assets to cover those losses and ARM is their best company.

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#5817655 Posted on: 08/13/2020 08:10 PM

nvidia buying arm might be the best thing ever happen or the worse .... we do not know yet , they might improve it leaps and bound ... that will be awesome ...on the other hand they might lock it down HARD triggering risk 5 to rise ...witch again might be awesome ...or terrible risk5 seems supper interesting but hp lenovo etc able to get the open source cpu and add their propriatery stuff might rise a new era ...that hp will be trying to lock you to their systems ... then dell doing the same ... etc etc etc .... who knows ? we will see right now they dance with the billions and all we can do is sit and watch really except if someone forgot some billions in their pockets and is able to buy too

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