ARM is at the core of IoT growth strategy
Masayoshi Son: Then, I would like to show you a little about SoftBank's growth strategy for IoT.
As I said earlier, I think ARM is the core company of the SoftBank Group.
Let's ask a little about this ARM. Name someone who knew about a company called ARM this Monday before we announced it.
(Venue raised)
Yes, it's a stone's throw. Well, many people have raised their hands regarding the singularity from a while ago, but when asked at this venue, about 40% of the people raised their hands. About 60% of people, who didn't know at all, will definitely explain about IoT, which will be the key company of this singularity, ARM, which will be the key company, and this ARM, so please take a look together. I would like.
For those who knew it and those who knew about the company ARM, I would like to explain why I am paying attention to this company a little deeper.
A company called ARM does not manufacture chips. It is a company that designs. To research, develop, design and license the processor for this chip to various chip manufacturers around the world. You pass the blueprint.
Give the blueprint and provide the license. So, there are various chip makers all over the world, Renesas in Japan, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, etc. in the world. Like Mediatek.
We provide these with the blueprints for the ARM core. They add a lot of peripheral features to it, such as memory and graphics. Mr. Qualcomm is good at modems and communication, so I will put in more enhanced ones.
So ARM provides blueprints to various chip makers, companies like the ones listed above. So, they'll show you the final product of the chip, system-on-chip, and later, but if we opened the computer 20 or 30 years ago, the motherboard would come out on the computer. increase.
There was Intel's CPU on the motherboard, and there were a lot of memory chips and IO chips on it. The state of the motherboard of that PC is now one chip.
We call it system-on-chip, but the companies above here are NXP, Spreadtrum, and Mediatek.
Huawei, NVIDIA, they designed the finished product of the chip as a system-on-chip, manufactured it by a company like TSMC in Taiwan, and made various final products such as automobiles, mobile phones, smartphones. Well, it will be in the form of providing home appliances and such things.
