We got the best Samsung deals! Galaxy S24 Ultra, Watch 6, Z Fold 5 or, Z Flip 5.

SamMobile has affiliate and sponsored partnerships. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn a commission.

Notifications
    News for you

    Softbank has reportedly not asked Samsung to invest in ARM

    Business
    By 

    Last updated: October 5th, 2022 at 13:20 UTC+02:00

    There has been a lot of speculation about the future of British chip designer ARM after NVIDIA's deal to acquire the company fell through due to anti-trust concerns. Japan's Softbank owns ARM and it has since been considering several options including an IPO.

    The other option is to put together a consortium of the industry's biggest players to take a stake in ARM. That would include Samsung Electronics as well. However, after a highly anticipated meeting between Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, it appears that Samsung will be holding on to its cash for now.

    Softbank is now preparing to take ARM public

    Prior to his visit to South Korea, Son said that “I’d like to talk with Samsung about a strategic alliance with ARM.” It's not necessary that this alliance would require Samsung to make an investment of some sort. There are many areas in which the two companies can collaborate, as they have done for years.

    Perhaps this was all that was discussed during the meeting. South Korea's JoongAng paper reports that no offer was made to Samsung to either purchase a stake in ARM or to make a pre-IPO investment. The meeting was also attended by Rene Haas, the CEO of ARM. That's not to say that an offer may not be extended at any point in the future.

    It remains to be seen whether the much-rumored consortium will even be put together. Recent reports have suggested that Softbank is now preparing to take ARM public, with New York being the preferred listing destination. However, the UK government is apparently interested in having ARM listed in London. So there may be some hoops yet for Softbank to jump before it can sell some of its shares in ARM to the public.

    Softbank has indicated that despite taking the company public, it intends to maintain a majority stake in ARM, thereby continuing to exercise control over this crucial company.

    Business ARM

    You might also like

    Samsung and Arm collaborate on next-gen Cortex-X CPU cores

    Samsung and Arm collaborate on next-gen Cortex-X CPU cores

    Samsung Foundry, Samsung Electronics' division that fabricates semiconductor chips, has announced its collaboration with Arm (Arm Holdings PLC) for optimized fabrication of next-generation Cortex-X series CPU cores. This collaboration will improve the performance and power efficiency of CPU cores using Arm's latest Cortex-X series designs and fabricated using Samsung Foundry's GAA process. Arm and Samsung […]

    • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
    • 1 month ago
    Galaxy Book with Snapdragon X Elite chip could launch later this year

    Galaxy Book with Snapdragon X Elite chip could launch later this year

    A few months ago, Qualcomm unveiled its most ambitious flagship processor for laptops, the Snapdragon X Elite. After the announcement, Samsung confirmed that it would launch a laptop featuring that chipset, but it didn't reveal when we can expect the laptop to be unveiled. Now, we may have more information about it. Galaxy Book 4 […]

    • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
    • 2 months ago
    Native Google Chrome now available for Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Books

    Native Google Chrome now available for Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Books

    Samsung has been launching Galaxy Book laptops with ARM-based Snapdragon processors for a couple of years now. While Windows works generally well, and so do most of the stock apps, not all applications are natively built for the ARM processor. One of the most popular apps and the most popular web browser in the world, […]

    • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
    • 2 months ago
    Galaxy S25 could finally beat iPhone in CPU performance, thanks to ARM

    Galaxy S25 could finally beat iPhone in CPU performance, thanks to ARM

    iPhones have always had an upper hand in terms of CPU performance. In fact, Apple's smartphones have been 2-3 generations ahead of flagship Android smartphones from the likes of Samsung, OPPO, Vivo, and Xiaomi. Even this year, the iPhone 15 Pro is at least 28% faster than the fastest Android smartphone chip, the Snapdragon 8 […]

    • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
    • 2 months ago
    A major change could come to Android phones in the coming years

    A major change could come to Android phones in the coming years

    All smartphones sold these days use processors that are based on ARM's ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). Arm Holdings is a British firm that developed this power-efficient architecture back in 1983, and it has been dominating the mobile device space for a few decades. Every brand, from Apple to Samsung to Xiaomi, uses processors based on […]

    • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
    • 5 months ago
    AMD and Nvidia to launch ARM-based processors for Windows PCs in 2025

    AMD and Nvidia to launch ARM-based processors for Windows PCs in 2025

    The Windows PC and laptop space is currently dominated by AMD and Intel, and processors from these brands use the x64 or x86 architectures. However, Qualcomm has been trying to change that over the past few years with its ARM-based processors, albeit unsuccessfully. Now, it looks like the Windows PC space could change over the […]

    • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
    • 5 months ago