SoftBank's Arm extends partnership with Apple beyond 2040

According to news from this site on September 6, according to the initial public offering documents submitted by Arm, a chip design company owned by SoftBank, on Tuesday, Apple has signed a new chip technology agreement with Arm. The agreement "will last until 2040 and beyond." ".

Arm announced the pricing of a $52 billion (currently about 378.04 billion yuan) initial public offering on Tuesday, which would be the largest such deal in the United States this year.

SoftBank Group plans to offer 95.5 million American depositary shares at a price of $47 to $51 per share, Arm said in a filing.

Arm licenses its IP to Apple and many other companies, and Apple currently uses Arm technology to customize the design of its iPhone, iPad and Mac chips.

In fact, Apple was one of the first companies to establish cooperation with Arm in 1990, and then released a product based on Arm chip technology in 1993. "Newton" hand-held computer, but unfortunately failed in the end.

However, the east is not bright and the west is bright. Although Arm technology failed to win the favor of computer chips, it gradually dominated the mobile semiconductor field due to a series of factors such as low power consumption.

It is worth mentioning that Apple is also the first among many large technology companies to invest in Arm's initial public offering. However, Arm’s public IPO filing on August 21 did not mention the transaction, which means that the deal was signed between then and September 5.

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