When Cambridge’s life science and technology luminaries gathered for an event at Trinity Hall college on Monday evening, guests only wanted to talk about two things: Brexit and Arm Holdings. Cambridge’s “Silicon Fen” has housed one of the UK’s most successful technology clusters for more than 40 years. But the £24bn sale of Arm to Japan’s SoftBank, marks the last — and the largest — of the city’s big four technology companies to move into foreign ownership. It highlights an issue that has concerned followers of British tech for a number of years.
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