Everything under the Son
Masayoshi Son sets the tone for SoftBank after the exit of his successor
AS A student, the 58-year-old founder of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms firm, resolved to dream up one computer-related business idea a day. When Masayoshi Son saw, at that time, a picture of a new Intel chip in a science magazine, he cut it out and kept it with him for years. So it fits that his biggest acquisition should be in semiconductors. On July 18th he said SoftBank would buy ARM Holdings, a British company that designs processing chips, for £24 billion ($32 billion).
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Everything under the Son”
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