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Tuesday 15 August 2023
Will Samsung become strategic investor in Arm's upcoming IPO?
British silicon intellectual property (IP) supplier Arm reportedly has extended a wide invitation to semiconductor companies to become its strategic investors in its upcoming initial...
Tuesday 11 July 2023
SoftBank to build supercomputer for generative AI
NHK and Nikkei reported that SoftBank, the telecom subsidiary under SoftBank Group, planned to invest JPY20 billion (US$140 million) and use Nvidia's GPU to build...
Monday 19 December 2022
New Japan chipmaker Rapidus faces challenges to mass produce 2nm chips by 2027
Japan's newly founded advanced chips manufacturing company Rapidus aims to develop 2nm chips mass production technology through cooperation with mainly the US and foray into the foundry...
Friday 23 September 2022
Arm mulls partnership with Samsung, potentially on near-memory computing
SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son raised the possibility of a strategic alliance between Arm and Samsung on September 22, according to several media outlets, as falling technology...
Friday 12 August 2022
Arm reported record quarterly revenue despite challenges ahead
As SoftBank posted a record JPY3.16 trillion (US$23.5 billion) loss in Q1FY22, prompting it to offload half of its holdings in the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Its subsidiary...
Monday 14 March 2022
SEA roundup: Softbank no longer investing in Borneo project
SoftBank has pulled out investment in Indonesia's new capital project on Borneo Island, according to Jakarta...
Wednesday 9 February 2022
Nvidia and SoftBank terminate Arm acquisition deal
Nvidia and SoftBank Group have announced the termination of the previously announced transaction whereby the former would acquire Arm from the latter. The parties said they agreed...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Vietnam-based MoMo raises US$200 million in Series E funding round
The largest Vietnam-based e-wallet and e-payment service provider, MoMo, raised US$200 million in Series E funding round in December 2021, leading to an appraised corporate value...
Wednesday 24 March 2021
PatSnap receives US$300 million in funding from SoftBank, Tencent and others
PatSnap, a Singaporean provider of innovation intelligence, has announced it has secured US$300 million in Series E funding, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investment with...
Thursday 14 January 2021
Value of semiconductor industry M&A agreements sets record in 2020, says IC Insights
Five big acquisition announcements and more than a dozen smaller deals in 2020 pushed the total value of M&A agreements in the year to an all-time high of US$118 billion, surpassing...
Friday 18 September 2020
Arm acquisition faces plenty of obstacles, says IC Insights
After nearly two months of negotiations and press reports that a blockbuster deal was in the works, Nvidia this week announced a US$40 billion agreement to buy Arm from financially...
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Arm may lose China market after Nvidia takeover
Arm stands to lose its Chinese clients by becoming a part of the US-based Nvidia amid China's campaign to shed its reliance on American IC suppliers.
Monday 24 June 2019
G2 and Beyond: AI to bring biggest revolution in human history, says SoftBank founder
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son believes artificial intelligence will bring the biggest paradigm shift in human history, revolutionize all industries.
Saturday 22 June 2019
G2 and Beyond: SoftBank chairman says he did not order Arm to stop shipping to Huawei
SoftBank Group chairman Masayoshi Son has disclosed that he was not invovled in Arm's decision to stop shipments to Huawei in the wake of the US ban on the Chinese handset and telecom...
Saturday 22 June 2019
G2 and Beyond: SoftBank chairman, Foxconn founder, Katerra CEO shed light on global supply chain at Taipei forum
Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou, SoftBank Group chairman Masayoshi Son, and Katerra CEO Michael E Marks gathered together at a Taipei forum on June 22 to dissect the importance...