Stefan Mileschin

IPO on the way

Now that the US Federal Trade Commission has killed off Nvidia's acquisition of Arm, the question of what happens next for the British chip designer has come up.

It looks like Arm is seen by regulators as being too important to not be neutral and this rules out it being bought by another chip company and almost every major chip company is now an Arm licensee, one way or another.

Arm's current owners, Softbank, wanted to sell Arm when it was under pressure from some expensive, high-profile deal failures, At the time, Softbank needed to raise cash or at least convince their own investors that they had the ability to do so. However, now they don’t need to and have benefited strongly from the technology stock market bull run over the last two years.

It has made some big bets on the market and these have paid off, so the company is now in a much better financial position. Keeping Arm makes some sense.

Arm needs to make some big investments to fund future R&D needs, but it could raise sufficient funds on its own to do this.

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