Currently the ARM company is one of the most valuable in the technological world due to its developments. The architecture for smartphone SoCs is making the leap into the desktop and server market. One of the investors in this company is SoftBank, who owns a large part of the company. Apparently, this Japanese investment group is thinking of selling its share of ARM, which has raised the interest of Apple and Samsung
The reason for SoftBank's departure from ARM at the height of this SoC company would be financial problems. Son Mayoshi, the owner of this investment group would have lost about 5.772 million euros (700.000 million yen) in recent years. He even sold his stake in NVIDIA, in a clear losing move.
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Apple and Samsung on the hunt for ARM
As is logical, Apple and Samsung would be very interested in acquiring the SoftBank part. Samsung wants it because it is developing an SoC with ARM cores and an AMD RDNA GPU. Apple loves it because it's going to base all of its products on the big.LITTLE architecture created by ARM. Come on, the two companies have many interests.
Note that Apple is currently already a large investor in ARM and is already one of the largest manufacturers of ARM-based chips. Its mobile products are based on ARM and will soon be based on laptops, desktops and more. We have to keep in mind that Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world.
South Korean technology media emphasize that Samsung also has an interest in SoftBank's stakes. And it is that the South Korean company works on an ARM SoC that integrates an AMD RDNA2 graphics. This would strengthen and improve your position, as well as diversify your portfolio. Relying on memory chips is not a very wise idea and requires good portfolio diversification. What's more, Samsung wants to be the world's leading semiconductor company by 2030.
[irp]Source: MD
