Japan’s SoftBank has often played a poor hand as a global technology conglomerate, even if has become a significant force in Open RAN and vRAN development with a lead role in various collaborations. The company is all the more determined to succeed with its biggest card of all, the Cambridge, UK, based semiconductor design company Arm, in which it currently holds a controlling 75% stake. SoftBank wants to cash in some of its stake in Arm, and raise the value of the rest, to recoup some of the money that has been lost through its rather ill-fated Vision Funds – which were set up as a vehicle for major investors in high technology companies, drawing in Saudi Arabia’s public investment…