On July 18, foreign media revealed that Softbank of Japan would acquire ARM, a British chip design company, which immediately caused a big uproar. Apple Qualcomm、 Big alligators such as Samsung are determined not to be calm. Later, Softbank of Japan especially emphasized that the senior management team of ARM would be retained after the acquisition, and the headquarters in Cambridge, England would also remain unchanged. It would also double the number of British employees of ARM in the next five years. It is rumored that the acquisition amount at that time was also determined to be 24.3 billion pounds (about 215.5 billion yuan), 17 pounds per share. Softbank Group of Japan announced today that it has officially completed the acquisition of ARM, with the final transaction price of about 24 billion pounds (about 213.5 billion yuan). It was almost the same as the rumored purchase price at that time.

The smooth progress of this transaction benefited from the approval of the board of directors, shareholders and relevant regulatory authorities of both parties. ARM will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange on September 6, GMT, and will no longer be publicly listed. The outside world has been speculating about the purpose of Softbank's acquisition of ARM for a long time. Some people think that Softbank indirectly controls Apple, Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers by controlling the licensing mode of ARM processor architecture. Some people think that Softbank of Japan mentioned the IoT market during the acquisition, and may be interested in this development, and let ARM help them. At present, for ARM, the product layout and planning will not change significantly in the future. In the first half of the year, ARM has announced the CPU and GPU architecture of the latest generation of mobile processors: Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71.