Reportedly plans to launch its own AI chips by fall 2025 - Nikkei
- To set up an AI chip division with plans for a prototype by spring 2025 and mass production later that year carried out by contract manufacturers like TSMC
- Softbank expected to provide some funding for the initiative which is expected to cost hundreds of billions of Yen
- Once mass production begins the AI unit could be spun off with Softbank as the controlling owner