SOFTBANK AND ARM. An ARM and SoftBank Group branded board is displayed at a news conference in London, Britain July 18, 2016. This is the first known time that Arm has decided it could not export its most cutting-edge designs to China, the Financial Times says, citing people familiar with the matter Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs after the SoftBank-owned British chip tech firm Arm Ltd determined that US and Britain would not approve licenses to export technology to China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, December 14. This…