SoftBank intends to keep its controlling stake in Arm after IPO
According to sources familiar with the matter, SoftBank Group Corp. plans to hold a majority share in Arm Ltd. following the scheduled initial public offering of the semiconductor company, selling a lower amount than initially intended.
After a deal to sell Arm to Nvidia fell through earlier thi... Read more
SK Hynix CEO: ‘I want to buy Arm’
SK Hynix is considering the acquisition of Arm. "We are reviewing the possibility of forming a consortium to jointly acquire it."
"I want to buy Arm, entirely or not", said CEO Park Jung-ho during an annual shareholder meeting. "It doesn't have to be a majority of shares to be able to control th... Read more
SoftBank aims for 54 billion euros with Arm IPO
SoftBank's IPO plans are definitive: Arm will be listed on the stock exchange. The Japanese tech giant has taken the first steps and values Arm at over €54 billion ($60 billion).
Bloomberg reports that SoftBank hired financial specialists from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co and the Miz... Read more
Arm lays off 12 to 15 percent of staff after Nvidia deal falls through
Softbank is reorganizing subsidiary Arm and plans to take the chip technology specialist public. The move will lead to job losses of 12 to 15 percent.
According to The Telegraph, Softbank wants to take Arm public. To make it happen, Softbank has to reorganize. CEO Rene Haas announced that employ... Read more
VUSec finds new Spectre-v2 vulnerability in Intel and Arm CPUs
Security researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUSec) found a vulnerability in most Intel CPUs. The team managed to leak kernel memory in modern Intel CPUs as unprivileged users.
Intel and Arm have been taking hardware measures to counter Spectre attacks since 2018. Spectre-v2, the se... Read more
AMD, Intel, and others collaborate on chiplet technology standard
Giant chipmaker companies announce that they are coming together to make a chiplet technology standard.
Some of the major chipmaking companies of today, such as Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Arm LTS., ASE Inc., TSMC Ltd, and Qualcomm Inc., are collaborati... Read more
Intel wants to buy Arm with a consortium
Intel wants to collaborate with other manufacturers to acquire chip technology specialist Arm. According to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, an Arm IPO is welcome as well.
Recently, Nvidia was necessitated to stop its planned acquisition of Arm. Now, Arm's backup plan is coming to light. Softbank, Arm's... Read more
Acquisition of Arm by Nvidia has been cancelled
The sale of Arm to Nvidia will not go ahead. Nvidia decided to do so in consultation with tech investor Softbank, the owner of Arm. The reason for the cancellation is the difficulties in getting approval from regulators. The plan is now to take Arm public because Softbank does not want to remain th... Read more
Vodafone joins with Intel to challenge network suppliers on OpenRAN
The project will be powered by a new R&D centre in Malaga, Spain
Vodafone has teamed up with Intel and other silicon vendors to design its own chip architecture for nascent OpenRAN network technology, according to a report in Reuters. The partnership aims to weaken the grip of traditional te... Read more
Nvidia throws in the towel: ‘Arm acquisition will likely fall through’
Nvidia is preparing to stop its planned acquisition of Arm. Bloomberg reported the news based on anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
In 2020, Nvidia offered $40 billion to acquire Arm. According to Bloomberg, the plan is likely to be terminated. Sources familiar with the matter claim tha... Read more