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Arm published a prospectus for its blockbuster IPO on the Nasdaq exchange next month.
Arm發布了一份轟動的招股說明書，計劃于下月在納斯達克交易所進行首次公開招股。
SoftBank, a Japanese tech conglomerate, bought the British chip designer in 2016 for $31bn.
2016年，日本科技集團軟銀以310億美元收購了這家英國芯片設計公司。
It is expected to be worth between $60bn and $70bn when it makes its Nasdaq debut.
預計該公司在納斯達克首次公開招股時的市值將在600億至700億美元之間。
Arm’s chip architecture is used in 99% of the world’s smartphones.
全球99%的智能手機都使用的是Arm的芯片架構。
Although that market has slowed, tech titans such as Amazon, Apple and Nvidia are reportedly interested in taking big stakes in the company.
盡管芯片市場已經放緩，但據報道，亞馬遜、蘋果和英偉達等科技巨頭都有興趣收購該公司的大量股份。
Nvidia released quarterly earnings.
英偉達公布季度財報。
Revenue more than doubled at the maker of chips for AI, year on year, to $13.5bn.
這家人工智能芯片制造商的營收同比增長逾一倍，至135億美元。
Perhaps that is no surprise, given that just one of Nvidia’s H100 chips can cost upwards of $40,000.
考慮到英偉達H100芯片一枚的價格就可能高達4萬美元，這也許并不奇怪。
It is delighting investors by buying back $25bn-worth of stock.
該公司回購價值250億美元的股票，令投資者歡欣鼓舞。
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority cleared Broadcom’s proposed $69bn takeover of VMware, a month after regulators in the EU gave their approval.
英國競爭與市場管理局批準了博通以690億美元收購VMware的提議，一個月前, 歐盟多家監管機構也批準了該提議。
America’s Federal Trade Commission is still scrutinising the deal, which was announced 15 months ago.
美國聯邦貿易委員會仍在審查這項15個月前宣布的交易。
Separately, Microsoft submitted a restructured proposal for its takeover of Activision Blizzard to the CMA in the hope of getting the regulator’s blessing, after it said it would block the deal.
另外，微軟向英國競爭與市場管理局提交了一份收購動視暴雪的重組方案，希望得到這個監管機構的批準。此前，英國競爭與市場管理局曾表示將阻止該交易。
Meta rolled out a web version of its Threads social-media platform.
Meta推出社交媒體平臺Threads的網頁版。
Threads was launched as an alternative to Twitter (now X) last month.
上個月，Meta推出Threads作為Twitter(現更名為X)的替代品。
Over 100m people signed up to the app in the first few days, but since that initial hullabaloo the number of active daily users has reportedly plummeted, to below 10m.
在最初上線的幾天里，超過1億人注冊了Threads，但據報道，最初的喧囂過后，日活躍用戶數暴跌至1000萬以下。
It is still not available in the EU, probably because of the region’s tough regulations on data privacy.
歐盟仍然無法使用這款應用，可能是因為該地區對數據隱私有嚴格規定。
Markets reacted positively to Zoom’s latest quarterly earnings, as it raised its forecast for the full year.
市場對Zoom最新的季度盈利反應積極，因為該公司上調了全年預期。
The video-conferencing company has been struggling to adapt to the end of the pandemic, when remote working caused its business to soar, though it is expanding its range of services through the use of artificial intelligence and has invested in Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former employees of OpenAI.
這家視頻會議公司一直在努力適應疫情的結束。疫情期間，盡管這家公司正在通過使用人工智能擴大服務范圍，并投資了由OpenAI前員工創立的人工智能初創公司Anthropic，但使其業務飆升的是遠程辦公。
Investors eagerly awaited a speech by Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the Jackson Hole symposium for clues about the future direction of interest rates.
投資者熱切期待美聯儲主席杰羅姆·鮑威爾在杰克森霍爾研討會上的演講，以尋找有關未來利率走向的線索。
The yield on American ten-year government bonds hit a 16-year high, as markets continued to bet that favourable economic conditions will allow the Fed to keep rates around their current level.
美國十年期政府債券收益率創下16年來新高，因為市場繼續押注有利的經濟狀況將使美聯儲能夠將利率維持在目前水平。
