At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he “was crying” over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but “I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI”
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Sources: the $550B US-Japan investment framework, central to the trade agreement, was heavily influenced by Masayoshi Son, with the Stargate Project tied to it
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How Masayoshi Son became President Trump's favored foreign investor, after cultivating close ties since Trump's first term, leading to SoftBank's $2B Intel deal
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Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment
Japanese group's approach comes as US manufacturer struggles to attract customers and compete with rival TSMC
Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of RSUs until December 24 in a tender offer to SoftBank, a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son
OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.
Sources: Apple pays Arm under 30 cents per device to license Arm's IP, the lowest rate among Arm's smartphone customers; Apple accounts for <5% of Arm's sales
In 2017, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son gathered a group of executives from Arm Holdings, the British chip designer SoftBank had just bought …
Sources: UK PM Rishi Sunak met Arm CEO Rene Haas and Masayoshi Son to revive efforts to secure a London listing for Cambridge-based Arm's IPO alongside New York
Officials and London Stock Exchange face uphill battle to secure UK role for chip designer's IPO
Despite UK pressure, Masayoshi Son tells SoftBank shareholders that the Nasdaq remains his “favourite” venue for Arm's IPO, but that nothing has been decided
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How SoftBank's costly bet on IoT at Arm backfired and distracted the company from the much bigger data center market
UK chip designer changes strategy ahead of planned float with renewed focus on lucrative server market — As Masayoshi Son tried to persuade investors of the wisdom …
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says he is planning a US IPO for Arm in March 2023, following the failure of the Nvidia deal; SoftBank keeps a $1.25B breakup fee
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said he plans an initial public offering in the U.S. for Arm Ltd. after Nvidia Corp. bowed …