{"id":111425,"date":"2019-03-19T19:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=239120"},"modified":"2019-03-19T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:21:33","slug":"softbank-hands-arm-means-to-aggressively-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/19\/softbank-hands-arm-means-to-aggressively-expand\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank hands Arm means to aggressively expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tINTERVIEW: Arm&#8217;s top executive explained the company would not be in the shape it is today without the backing of SoftBank, with a \u00a324 billion takeover [1] by the Japanese giant enabling it to embark on an ambitious growth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Simon Segars (pictured) said SoftBank&#8217;s parentage has enabled Arm to invest &#8220;in a way that we just couldn&#8217;t have done as a public company&#8221;. For example, it is investing in multiple technologies at once, rather than having to prioritise one or two, and hired &#8220;a couple of thousand more engineers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Arm has also been empowered to go on the acquisition trail [2], with &#8220;a few key&#8221; deals in 2018 &#8220;helping us develop a software platform for IoT, so it&#8217;s enabling us to broaden our business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time when the focus of the technology industry shifts from mobile and smartphones to &#8220;things like autonomous driving, IoT, 5G networks&#8221;. SoftBank&#8217;s ownership is &#8220;giving us the opportunity and the scale and the resources to invest in technologies that those new market areas need, and bring those into our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Segars also said that, in line with earlier reports [3], another listing of Arm is in the pipeline, albeit &#8220;on a roughly five-year timeframe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, for all of its investment in new areas, smartphones remain central to Arm&#8217;s work: \u201cOur core, underlying technology driver remains around the smartphone sector: if you can develop technology for smartphones, you need to deliver super-high-performance and super-low cost, and super-energy efficiency, if you can get that right those core foundations of technology are useful everywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview here [4].<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/softbank-closes-arm-deal\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/arm-eyes-iot-boost-with-stream-technologies-buy\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/softbank-mulls-arm-listing-in-long-term-play\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/videos\/interviews\/interview-arm-2\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEW: Arm&rsquo;s top executive explained the company would not be in the shape it is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/softbank-hands-arm-means-to-aggressively-expand\/\">SoftBank hands Arm means to aggressively expand<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/19\/softbank-hands-arm-means-to-aggressively-expand\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2151,2,2496,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-sZb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}