Because I mean, what's cool is like it is literally the ARM 610 that was developed with Apple for the Apple Newton is the core of all the ARM processors.
Welcome to season four, episode two of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs.
I'm Ben Gilbert, I'm David Rosenthal and.
We are your hosts.
Today we are going to explore a topic that has flown relatively under the radar despite being the primary component of every single one of our phones, SoftBank's $32 billion purchase of the British based ARM holdings.
For folks that listened to the previous episode that we did on SoftBank, you know they were once a Japanese telecom and multinational conglomerate.
Now that has a close to $100 billion fund that they have created massive disruption in the startup landscape.
Here we are diving into the deal that started it all and with just an essential piece of technology that we all use every single day.
Listeners, you know that a few months ago we started our limited partner program for folks to go deeper on technology startups and VC topics with us.
David, I wanted to say that I'm particularly pumped where we landed in our last episode on investment, these on ambient computing and processing happening everywhere as sort of the next enormous technology wave.
So I think it's super relevant to this episode and we will find out why as we dig in.
So if you're interested or you just want to support the show and like what we do, you should click the link in the show notes to consider becoming a prestigious acquired limited partner or go to Kimberlite fm Acquired okay listeners, now is a great time to tell you about long time friend of the show, ServiceNow.
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