Arm could end up competing with its own partners as it seeks to purchase Ampere computing for $6.5 billion

• SoftBank confirms $6.5 billion deal to acquire Arm-based chipmaker Ampere
• The deal could align Ampere with Arm and previously acquired Graphcore
• The acquisition could put Arm in direct competition with its chip partners

We previously reported that Arm is considering making its own silicon, and that the British firm’s Japanese owner, SoftBank, was considering acquiring Ampere Computing, Arm‘s only independent server chip vendor, to make this a reality.

Ampere, based in Santa Clara, California and backed by Oracle, designs high-performance, energy-efficient processors optimized for AI and cloud workloads using the Arm compute platform.