SoftBank acquires Arm
SoftBank acquires Arm is an acquisition announced 2016-07-18, valued at $32.0B, currently completed. SoftBank took UK chip-IP designer Arm private.
Deal record from the wafergraph deals corpus · every field traces to the sources listed below · page data as of 2026-09-05
- Type
- acquisition
- Announced
- 2016-07-18
- Status
- completed
- Value
- $32.0B
- Parties
- SoftBank (acquirer), Arm Holdings (target)
- Source confidence
- high
The companies involved
Arm Holdings
CPU architecture licensed in virtually every smartphone and most edge devices. leader in Semiconductor IP Licensing, headquartered in United Kingdom, market cap $269.2B. 1 tracked suppliers, 11 tracked customers
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Sources
Cite as: wafergraph, “SoftBank acquires Arm”, https://wafergraph.com/deal/softbank_arm/ (data as of 2026-09-05).
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