Intel force me to return to the semiconductor industry peak, wafer foundry development to become a key, according to people familiar with the matter, SoftBank (t), the Arm chip design company (Arm) is working with Intel (Intel), the potential strategic investment object of negotiations, to become the Arm for an initial public offering (IPO) of the main investors.

Arm in April of this year to U.S. regulators, secret U.S. stock market listing submission, hopes to raise up to $10 billion, to lay a good foundation for the largest IPO this year, due to the IPO is mainly the introduction of anchor investors, will help improve market interest in the IPO shares and kinetic energy, so if Intel to negotiate successfully the column names in Arm's IPO public disclosure.

Arm design was used to make most of the world semiconductor chips, a consortium including Intel, AMD, NVIDIA (NVIDIA) and qualcomm, now do not know of any one or more companies IPO investment, may be what influence on Arm's business relations, but people familiar with the stressed that the negotiation is still in its preliminary stage, pre-ipo could still talk about not approach.

Intel and Arm has announced cooperation, for the design of the Arm and the industry standard instruction is widely used, for example, like broadcom network processor chips, apple iPhone and Mac, and qualcomm is widely used in mobile phone chip USES the Arm architecture, if Intel want to compete with Taiwan semiconductor wafer foundry, widely used Arm chip as the key technology.