SoftBank‘s deal to sell the chip designer Arm to US semiconductor giant Nvidia was worth $66 billion on paper when it collapsed this week — more than twice what SoftBank paid for the UK business in 2016. Now, instead of a fat profit from a sale, SoftBank is looking at an initial public offering for Arm in which it might struggle to break even.
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