Arm Ltd.

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Arm Ltd. is a British semiconductor and software design company best known for creating the ARM architecture used in the vast majority of the world’s mobile and embedded processors.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf fabless semiconductor company
public company
semiconductor company
software company
acquiredBy SoftBank Group
acquisitionDate 2016
acquisitionValue approximately 32 billion USD
architectureDesigned ARM architecture
ARMv7
ARMv8
ARMv9
businessModel intellectual property licensing
royalty-based licensing
country United Kingdom
designPhilosophy reduced instruction set computing
focus RISC processor architectures
foundedBy Acorn Computers
Apple Computer, Inc.
VLSI Technology
hasSubsidiary Arm China
headquartersLocation Cambridge, England
inception 1990
industry computer software
intellectual property licensing
semiconductors
listedOn Nasdaq
marketPosition dominant supplier of CPU IP for mobile devices
notableCustomer Apple Inc.
Broadcom
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Samsung Electronics
notableFor ARM architecture used in mobile devices
low-power processor designs
originalName Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
product CPU cores
GPU cores
development tools
microcontroller cores
software development kits
system-on-chip architectures
shortName Arm
spunOffFrom Acorn Computers
technologyUsedIn Internet of Things devices
embedded systems
single-board computers
smartphones
tablets
tickerSymbol ARM

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