SoftBank Seen Not Proposing Arm Investment To Samsung

SoftBank’s “strategic alliance” with Samsung and UK chip designer Arm will not include a proposal for investment, local news said on Wednesday.

SoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son has not proposed that Samsung buy a stake in Arm or make a pre-IPO investment, the JoongAng daily newspaper reported, citing unnamed industry sources.

The billionaire met with Samsung on Tuesday to discuss forming a “strategic alliance” with UK chip designer Arm’s Chief Executive Rene Haas also present. The meeting was Son’s first visit to Seoul in three years

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Arm, a Cambridge based firm, produces technology that powers Apple’s iPhone and nearly all other smartphones.

SoftBank acquired Arm in 2016 for $32 billion. A subsequent proposed deal to sell it to Nvidia aroused industry opposition and foundered on regulatory hurdles, prompting SoftBank to outline plans for a US listing of the Cambridge-based firm.

• Reuters, with additional editing from Alfie Habershon

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Alfie Habershon

Alfie is a Reporter at Asia Financial. He previously lived in Mumbai reporting on India's economy and healthcare for data journalism initiative IndiaSpend, as well as having worked for London based Tortoise Media.

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