In the middle of the blitz of SoftBank earnings news today comes the financials for all of SoftBank’s subsidiaries, which consists of Arm Holdings, the most crucial chip style and research study company in the world that SoftBank bought for $32 billion back in2016 In all, 22.8 billion chips were shipped internationally last year using Arm licenses according to SoftBank’s financials.
It’s an enormously important company, and its finances show a complicated photo for itself– and the semiconductor market at large.
We sat down with Arm Holding’s CEO Simon Segars in 2015 to talk about the business’s growing hunger for ambitious research, fueled by SoftBank dollars and the bullish vision of the corporation’s chairman Masayoshi Boy:
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