软银出售 25%的胳膊到沙特阿拉伯支持的基金
巴黎 — — 软银准备卖掉 25%的手臂 — — 大约 $ 80 亿 — — 向新、 沙特阿拉伯支持 $ 1000 亿的投资基金，金融时报 》 今天报道。日本花了 $ 320 亿购买手臂只有六个月前。
软银 CEO 孙正义在臂采集宣布这一决定在 7 月，2016 年时间 (来源︰ 软银)
The move is likely to guarantee greater influence for Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi state-backed investment group, in the global semiconductor industry. Mubadala, which owns 100 percent of Globalfoundries, reportedly wanted the $100 billion Vision Fund to own a portion of ARM.
$100 billion Vision Fund
Japan’s Softbank announced last fall an ambitious plan to create the Softbank Vision Fund — a financial vehicle that would allow CEO Masayoshi Son to invest in the technology sector globally. The Fund, set up to raise $100 billion, aims to become “one of the world’s largest of its kind,” said Softbank last year.
While Softbank expects to pump at least $25 billion into the fund over the next 5 years, its biggest investor is Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which last year committed to contribute up to $45 billion. The deal is the fruit of long negotiations between Son and Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince.
In order to hit the Vision Fund’s self-imposed $100 billion target, Son reportedly wanted to secure the backing of Mubadala. The Financial Times reported, Softbank and Mubadala “are closing in on an agreement that would see Mubadala commit $15 billion to the fund.”
In response to Mubadala’s keen interest in ARM, Son is selling a quarter of Softbank’s $32 billion stake, which will cover a portion of SoftBank’s $25 billion fund contribution.
Although on a smaller scale, a number of companies including Apple, Qualcomm, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Foxconn are reportedly planning to invest in the fund.
It remains to be seen, however, how much controversy Son’s plan to sell a portion of ARM to the sheiks of Araby might generate in the investment community.
One thing is for sure.
因为新基金规模空前大，视觉基金将得到更多来自财务审查和科技社区。金融时报 》 估计基金作为”等于所有的钱，在过去的 30 个月内提出的美国风险投资业”。
同时，既然视觉基金组成的多元化投资者包括穆，儿子的计划，利用挑他的投资目标的基金可能会变得更加复杂。儿子将不再会冒着危险只是他自己的脖子上时他的赌注对他大的”疯狂想法”。
— — 纯子吉田，首席国际记者