SoftBank drops stake in Nvidia
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For years, Son has talked about SoftBank’s strategy to invest in the “computing platforms of the future,” including artificial intelligence. His firm amassed a reported $4 billion stake in Nvidia back in 2017, only to dump the shares in 2019.
Japanese tech giant SoftBank's shares slumped 6.6% Friday driven by the firm's sale all of its stake in the US chip giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion announced on Tuesday, and an overall concern regarding the overvaluation in the tech stocks.
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