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SoftBank and Arm: From a $31 Billion Acquisition to an AI-Era Strategic Asset

SoftBank's 2016 Arm acquisition evolved from a mobile-chip licensing bet into ownership of a strategic AI-era compute asset. A failed Nvidia sale, a 2023 IPO, and Arm's data-center expansion transformed the investment thesis without ending SoftBank's control.

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ARM: The Apple-Acorn-VLSI Joint Venture That Made Low-Power Computing Investable

Apple, Acorn, and VLSI turned a low-power processor into an independent licensing company whose economics would reshape mobile computing.

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