wall street journalSources have cited reports that SoftBank has agreed to sell Arm to NVIDIA in a cash and stock transaction valued at over $400 billion. However, the final details of the agreement have yet to be finalized, leaving the outcome of the talks open for discussion.
Prior to this, there were rumors in the market that Softbank planned to restore Arm to the stock market or sell it to a potential buyer as soon as possible. Before this, there were also rumors that Softbank had negotiated with Apple and other companies. Later, it was rumored that NVIDIA would be the most likely buyer to take over Arm. However, NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun later saidNo proposal to acquire Arm, but the market still believes that NVIDIA has the opportunity to acquire Arm, thereby strengthening its own layout in supercomputing and self-driving car applications by combining Arm architecture.
The market believes that NVIDIA's acquisition of Arm will not have a direct impact on the development of the existing smartphone market, because its business is mainly focused on display application design, and it continues to maintain close cooperation with various industries in development areas such as supercomputing, and has not formed a competitive relationship. Unlike Apple and other companies that acquire Arm, it may change the original cooperation model between Arm and other industries.
According to Softbank's acquisition of Arm for 2016 billion pounds in 240, the converted US dollar price is about 320 billion US dollars. Considering the growth of Arm's market value in recent years, NVIDIA will have to make a bid to acquire Arm from Softbank.More than US$320 billion, which will also enable SoftBank to generate billions of dollars in additional revenue.
