Arm & SoftBank: Part 2 - Masa’s gifts arrive

This post continues the conversation between Jon Metzler and Babbage on the Softbank takeover of Arm in 2016 and its repercussions. In Part 1 we discussed circumstances surrounding the takeover, Masayoshi Son’s approach to takeovers, his stated ambitions for Arm in the Internet of Things and Arm’s interest and approach to building its IoT and server businesses before the Softbank takeover.In this part we mainly focus on what happened after the Softbank takeover, but we start by revisiting Arm’s ...