Beijing commercial daily news (reporter Kit Shi Fei) Japan's softbank group yesterday was agreed for the price of 23.4 billion pounds (about 207.6 billion yuan), acquisition of the international famous giant ARM chip. The personage inside course of study points out, if true, could reach a win-win situation for both companies. At present, softbank and ARM also did not comment on the news.

ARM is a leading global supplier of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), more than 95% of the world's smartphones and tablet computers use the ARM architecture, ARM design a large number of high cost performance, low energy consumption RISC processors, related technology and software. The annual global shipments of 2014 based on ARM technology is 12 billion, from birth to now based on ARM chip with 60 billion, the company in smartphones, tablets, such as embedded control, multimedia digital processor area has a dominant position.

Japan's softbank corporation is a comprehensive risk investment companies, mainly committed to IT industry investment, including network and telecommunications. The company in the global investment company, which has more than 600, more than 300 in the world's major IT company owns a majority stake, and the company in the wireless, broadband, Internet, IC design, computer hardware has dabbled in software aspect, the direction is just the focus of the ARM needs to expand.

The personage inside course of study says, acquire ARM can be seen as a huge sum of money bet on softbank, because the acquisition is expected to help softbank locking future iot market leading position, and the ARM now facing the situation of the market share growth, buyout by softbank will likely be in the future to expand its own chip to more areas, compete with international giants such as Intel, in particular the monopoly of the field by Intel.