Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the Supermicro keynote presentation during the Computex conference in Taipei on June 1, 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Investors have become so enamored with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence story that they want a piece of anything the chipmaker touches. On Wednesday, Nvidia disclosed in … Read more
A view of grocery store in Washington DC, United States on February 14, 2024. Mostafa Bassim | Anadolu | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you … Read more
Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arm shares soared 29% on Monday, extending last week’s rally as investors continue to applaud the chipmaker’s better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and its position in the artificial intelligence boom. Arm is now up 93% since it reported quarterly financials on … Read more
SoftBank’s Vision Fund, the brainchild of the company’s founder Masayoshi Son, has faced a number of headwinds including a slump in technology stocks as a result of rising interest rates, a tough China market and geopolitics. Kentaro Takahash | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of SoftBank Group rose as much as 15.29% Friday morning, a … Read more
The logo of semiconductor design firm Arm on a chip. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Exactly two years ago, Nvidia’s attempt to purchase chip designer Arm from SoftBank came to an end due to “significant regulatory challenges.” Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s billionaire founder, has never been so lucky. That agreement would have involved selling … Read more
US President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and the deal between the United Auto Workers (UAW) Union and the big-three automakers, in Belvidere, Illinois, on November 9, 2023. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to … Read more
Arm CEO Rene Haas and executives cheer as Softbank’s Arm, a chip design firm, holds an initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, Sept. 14, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Shares of chip designer Arm climbed more than 60% on Thursday morning after the company reported better-than-expected earnings Wednesday and a strong … Read more
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, has been weighing up various options for chipmaker Arm after Nvidia walked away from buying the company. Alessandro Di Ciommo | Nurphoto | Getty Images SoftBank posted its biggest gain in nearly three years at the flagship tech investment arm, the Vision Fund, in the December quarter amid a recovery … Read more
Billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank, which owns Arm, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, July 28, 2016. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank made more in Arm’s after-hours trading on Wednesday than the total amount the company lost from its disastrous bet on now-bankrupt WeWork. … Read more
The Nasdaq MarketSite in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech stocks rebounded from a disastrous 2022 and lifted the Nasdaq to one of its strongest years in the past two decades. After last year’s 33% plunge, the tech-heavy Nasdaq finished 2023 … Read more