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ARM's trillion IoT chips need vision-November 16, 2016 |
In September SoftBank bought ARM for $32B, 40% more than its listed stock price at the time. Why was SoftBank willing to pay so much more than the market thought the company was worth? There seems so little synergy between this processor IP company and SoftBank’s telecommunications products. SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son gave a keynote presentation at ARM’s own TechCon event where he laid out his thinking.
Masayoshi started his talk in an unconventional way, asking everyone to close their eyes for moment, and then open them again. Within a few seconds he made the whole audience understand that your eyes give you a completely different experience of the world around you.