How many people can design a chip like this? Not enough, says Arm.
How many people can design a chip like this? Not enough, says Arm.
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Arm to raise $4.7B in IPO that values chip designer at $54.5 billion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Arm Holdings, the chip architecture firm owned by SoftBank Group, is poised to raise about $4.7 billion in its initial public offering that valued the company at more than $54.5 billion.

Reuters reported earlier that the IPO was oversubscribed by six times. As such, the company is in a position to break the ice in the IPO market, with hopes that a rally could open the window for other companies to do the same. Yet Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, reportedly decided the $51 a share price for the 95.5 million shares going up for sale on Thursday was prudent.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.