SOFTBANK FOUNDER REPORTEDLY AIMS TO RAISE $100 BILLION TO BUILD AI CHIP COMPANY THAT WOULD RIVAL NVIDIA — PROJECT IZANAGI MIGHT LEVERAGE ARM DESIGN

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Project Izanagi is a new chip venture from Softbank's founder that aims to compete with Nvidia in the artificial intelligence processor space. The project seeks to complement Softbank's Arm Holdings, which designs processor architectures. It is unclear whether the AI processors designed by Project Izanagi will rely on technologies developed by Arm. The project may affect Arm's plans to create reference chip designs for various workloads. It is separate from any collaboration with OpenAI.