February 9 news, according to the Nikkei News report, SoftBank Group President and President Sun Zhengyi said in an interview on the 8th that he did not expect that the sale of Arm would be met with such strong opposition.
Son said the sale was originally planned for up to $40 billion. Two-thirds of them were swapped with Nvidia, whose valuation had risen to more than $80 billion. But then the Arm sale was opposed by it from global IT companies, and governments and regulators showed strong concerns. Nvidia proposed a solution, and I believe that [countries] can agree, but the situation of ignoring it has lasted for 2 to 3 months recently. Nvidia said there were "difficulties". Frankly, we did not expect such opposition.
When talking about the listing of Arm, Son Zhengyi said that the future will focus on the NASDAQ market and will discuss listing in the United States.
