It is shaping up to be the year's largest IPO, Soft Banks Chip Maker Arm,

confidentially filing to go public today.

That's the focus of today's Tech Check with Your Dr Bosa.

Hey, D. Carl, so it's been a long road back to public markets for Arm to refresh your memories.

Soft Bank bought it back in 2016 for $32 billion.

Invidia tried to buy it for $40 billion,

ultimately shot down by regulators.

Soft Banks Massasan, he then devoted himself entirely to get this thing listed as

his company struggles under falling private tech valuations and so here we are

confidential filing that let's soft bank and arm gauge interest before an

actual debut and figure out where valuation lands now between 30 and 70 billion dollars has been reported and that

is a huge range that reflects the uncertainties in the broader markets and an

IPO market that has essentially been dead for the last year. Arm would be the biggest debut, not only in that time frame,

but over the last decade as well.

If it raises between 8 and 10 billion dollars,

it lands somewhere between an Uber and Rivian-sized fundraise.

Those were some of the biggest of the last decade.

Now, Arm, along with a few other key names,

breeze some life into this listings market,

and if they go well, they could open the floodgates for more to

follow. There's Kenview, a Consumer Health spinoff from J&J that's expected to

list at the end of this week and raise more than $3 billion.

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