Arm used to be public (listed in the UK!) but then Softbank purchased it for US$32b in 2016. Nvidia tried to buy it in 2020 for US$40b but pretty much every regulator in the world saw through Nvidia's promises to give everyone equal access to the Arm instruction set and denied the purchase. Now Softbank is putting it back on the public market after lodging paperwork for an IPO on the Nasdaq yesterday. Don't know when they'll launch on the Nasdaq or what the initial share price will be, but you can bet it'll be popular IPO considering how much stuff uses Arm-based CPUs/SoCs these days. Of course, Apple, Nvidia and Samsung will be taking decent chunks of equity as the main users of Arm products.
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