SoftBank Buy the Ampere Chips Design Company for 6,500 million

As soon as a month ago the first news appeared that Softbank was negotiating the purchase of the Ampere Chips Design Company, and both parties have already reached an agreement: SoftBank will stay with ampere for 6,500 million of dollars, which will pay in metallic.

According to the terms of the operation agreement, Ampere will work when the acquisition process that starts now as a Softbank subsidiary, and will continue to maintain its name. The company’s main shareholders, Carlyle and Oracle, will sell their ampere shares as part of the transaction.

With this step, SoftBank, which continues to advance in the infrastructure sector for AI, gets a company specialized in the design of chips based on ARM technology, mainly for integration into servers and data centers equipment.

Ampere was born in the California region known as Silicon Valley in 2018. In principle his activity focused on the developments and designs for Native Cloud computing, but in recent years he has turned to computing for the centered on sustainability. At present, it has a variety of hardware development products prepared to work with Cloud work loads, from the EDGE to the cloud computing data centers.

If everything goes as planned, and achieves the approvals of the corresponding regulatory agencies, the transaction will be closed throughout the second half of 2025. The ampere headquarters will continue in California, specifically in Santa Clara.

Masayoshi Son, CEO and president of the SoftBank Groupstressed that «The future of artificial superintelligence needs advances in computing power. Ampere’s experience in semiconductors and high performance computing will help accelerate this vision, and deepen our commitment to innovation in AI in the United States«.