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Significant synergy as SoftBank is a major telco in Japan, and Ampere has been investing heavily into telco usecases like OpenRAN. SoftBank is basically trying
by alephnerd 2y ago
Significant synergy as SoftBank is a major telco in Japan, and Ampere has been investing heavily into telco usecases like OpenRAN.
SoftBank is basically trying to own the entire RAN modernization stack - which is becoming a big part of what will become 6G.
Interesting times.
- boulos 2y agoOr that SoftBank owns Arm... and has very publicly said it wants to get into the full chip business, not just reference architecture.
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- alephnerd 2y agoThat most likely playec a role as well, but SoftBank has been very open about their backing for O-RAN and building the standards for 6G since 2021.