British chip designer Arm, backed by SoftBank, is in talks with potential strategic investors including Intel to anchor what will be one of the largest initial public offerings of the year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Arm has secretly filed for a public listing that its owner, SoftBank, says will see the chip design firm remain a subsidiary.

Advanced Micro Devices has captured nearly a third of the market for central processor units while British chip technology firm Arm's rise in the PC market slowed in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to an analyst report.

SoftBank's chip technology firm Arm's China joint venture laid off 90-95 employees last week to cope with a challenging business outlook this year, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs after the SoftBank-owned British chip tech firm Arm determined that US and Britain would not approve licenses to export technology to China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

SoftBank has put on hold plans for a London initial public offering of Arm because of the political turmoil in the UK government, throwing doubt on Britain's place as the future home of the Cambridge-based tech giant.

SoftBank's founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son on Friday reiterated the Japanese conglomerate was most likely to list British-based chip designer unit Arm on Nasdaq, while stressing no decision has been made.

Arm, the SoftBank Group unit preparing for an initial public offering, will cut as much as 15% of its workforce, part of an effort to rein in spending and focus on fewer projects.

Arm has introduced its new Mali-C78AE image signal processor (ISP), which is added to its "AE" line of safety-capable IP suitable for ADAS and human vision applications.

Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger said Intel would be interested in participating if a consortium emerges to own the British semiconductor and software design company Arm.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a conference call with analysts that regulators would not budge in their opposition to Nvidia's proposed $80 billion acquisition of Arm.

SoftBank has shelved its blockbuster sale of Arm to US chipmaker Nvidia valued at up to US$80 billion citing regulatory hurdles and will instead seek to list the company.

Haas succeeds Simon Segars, who has stepped down as chief executive officer and member of the board of directors after 30 years with the company.

Arm faces significant hurdles to growth as a standalone company if Nvidia's proposed acquisition falls through, according to documents released as part of the UK regulator's ongoing merger inquiry.

EU antitrust regulators have resumed investigation of Nvidia's deal for British chip designer ARM, setting a new deadline of May 25 for their decision, a European Commission filing showed.

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of a fellow chip company, Arm, halting what would be the biggest semiconductor industry deal in history, as federal regulators push to rein in corporate consolidation.

The planned 瞿29bn purchase of UK chip designer Arm by US firm Nvidia raises "serious" competition concerns, the UK's competition watchdog has said.

The UK is considering blocking a takeover of Arm by Nvidia due to potential risks to national security, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Qualcomm's new CEO, Cristiano Amon, says the company will have no problem producing laptop chips to compete directly with Apple's M1 - mainly because Qualcomm now employs some of the key minds behind Apple's highly publicized breakthrough.

Broadcom has come out in support of Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm after other firms raised concerns about the deal.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he is still confident regulators will green-light its $40 billion acquisition of SoftBank Group's Arm, despite growing skepticism about the deal's prospects.

Arm has unveiled the biggest overhaul of its technology in almost a decade, with new designs targeting markets currently dominated by Intel.

The UK-based chip designer, which dominates smartphones, now is trying to fix lackluster PC performance.

The U.K.'s competition watchdog has announced that it plans to investigate Nvidia's proposed acquisition of British chip designer Arm.

Now that Microsoft's Windows on ARM emulation layer can also run 64-bit x86 code, inevitably there will be questions as to how it compares with the Apple M1.

Simon Segars, the chief executive of Arm, said he expects regulators to "take a good look" at the company's deal with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia.

We've never seen an Arm chip do what Apple is about to try on Macs

Rising tensions between the former chief executive of Arm China, Allen Wu -- who controls a 17% stake in the company -- and the board of directors have spiraled out of control, putting the deal in doubt.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia will drive growth in computing power, in his first public comments since the $40 billion deal was announced in September.

China is unlikely to grant its unconditional blessing

Arm on Thursday said it was partnering with Microsoft to create tools that will help software developers transfer data from tiny sensor chips to Microsoft's cloud computing service.

The deal needs to get regulatory approval from the U.S., U.K., EU and China. "We think that China will pose the biggest challenge," Hou said.

The newly appointed chief executive of SiFive, a rising rival to Arm to supply chip designs, says Nvidia's $40 billion agreement to acquire Arm has sparked fresh interest from customers about deepening ties with the young firm.

The Chinese division of UK-based chip designer Arm has been sued by an investor over its board's attempt to oust the unit's chief executive, escalating an internal dispute at a time when the tech group is on the verge of being taken over in a $40 billion deal.

Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm is set to catapult it into the fray of geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Washington, analysts and lawyers say.

Chip company Arm Holdings said on Monday it has put the brakes on the proposed transfer of two of its software businesses to its Japan-based parent SoftBank Group.

SiFive, a California startup working to commercialize an open-source semiconductor technology, said on Tuesday that it has raised an additional $60 million in funding from investors including SK Hynix and Saudi Aramco.

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday denied a media report that it is considering buying a small stake in SoftBank Group's chip company Arm Holdings.

The co-founder of the company described as the jewel in the crown of British tech has said it would be disastrous for it to be sold to a US computing firm that is reportedly negotiating a takeover.

SoftBank's chip company Arm has gathered takeover interest from Nvidia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.