Over the past few months, SoftBank (SFTBY) CEO Masayoshi Son has developed an obsession with building the next Nvidia (NVDA) with his own chips and rake in billions of dollars being sent on AI hardware, Min Jeong Lee and Ian King of Bloomberg reports, according to sources directly involved. Son’s aim is to have the first batch of AI chips by 2026, with a prototype available summer of next year, people familiar with details told Bloomberg.
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