We are going to clear up a bit of both Pokémon and we are going to talk about financial issues. This time we show you another important monetary transaction behind a technology company, and that is SoftBank secures ARM for $ 32.000 billion. It is said soon, such an amount of money. This purchase by SoftBank will cause important changes in the chip manufacturer and makes the brand known, which despite having a considerable presence in many areas, is quite little known internationally as a representative brand, we tell you the details of the interesting transaction.
SofBank is a company dedicated to telecommunications and the internet, in fact it is a conglomerate of Japanese companies that invests a lot of money in startups in China and India. Many people do not know it, but ARM plays an important role in the development of smartphones, since it has a good number of patents used by Intel, Qualcomm and other companies such as Apple, both in the development and in the design of its processors and chipsets. In fact, ARM helps Apple design its processors, the same ones that are later made by Samsung.
ARM also makes its own GPUs for mobile devices that are used by Samsung and MediaTek. In fact, 15 million ARM processors were installed in devices during 2015, an increase of 9 million over the 6 million processors ARM sold in 2010. SoftBank has decided to take over ARM just now that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union and the British company has devalued a bit because of the pound, in fact, we understand that it is something that they already had in mind, but that they have done now due to the economic possibilities after the Brexit fiasco.