The giants Qualcomm, Tesla, Apple and Nvidia are ready to become the reference shareholders of the British.
Being the proud owner of a flourishing and essential business in your sector is not easy. Softbank is experiencing this. The Japanese seeks to sell a whole part of the capital of Arm, without succeeding. In question? The highly strategic and sensitive character of the chip designer whose products are used under license by the biggest players in the sector.
The IPO of Arm now seems the only acceptable option in the eyes of British public actors, competition authorities and companies using Arm technologies for their own processors. But as nothing is simple in this case, everything is subject to questioning.
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First, Arm’s listing location. The British campaign very actively for the London Stock Exchange to be chosen, anxious to keep this precious asset under the Union Jack. Boris Johnson even wrote to Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, to encourage him. However, the latter would favor the Nasdaq…
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