Net income of ¥347.3bn against a ¥120bn consensus, driven by a ¥1.333trn writeup on Intel shares. The position everyone watches — $64.6bn committed to OpenAI — produced neither a gain nor a loss.
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The chipmaker is in talks to backstop the lease and debt financing on a 10-gigawatt campus rising on a former uranium-enrichment site in southern Ohio — and separately, to finance up to $350 billion of OpenAI's chip purchases.
Jul 27, 2026
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell as much as 5.7% Friday, more than 20% below its late-June record, dragging SK Hynix, Arm, AMD and SoftBank down with it.
Jul 18, 2026
Bret Taylor's conversational-AI company hands SoftBank exclusive rights to sell its customer-service agents across Japan, building on a LINEMO deployment that lifted inquiry resolution from 83% to 97%.
Jul 15, 2026
