ARM Holdings (Arm plc)

Overview

British multinational semiconductor and software design company known for ARM architecture used in most smartphones and emerging in servers.

Key Facts

  • Founded: 1990-11-27

  • Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Status: Public (NASDAQ: ARM)

  • CEO: Rene Haas

  • Originally a joint venture between Acorn Computer, Apple, and VLSI

  • ARM architecture uses RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing)

  • Powers the vast majority of smartphones worldwide (Apple M-series, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos)

  • Apple M-series chips (M1, M2, M3) use ARM architecture

  • AWS Graviton, Ampere Altra use ARM for cloud servers

  • Acquired by SoftBank in 2016 for $32B

Products Mentioned in Wiki

  • arm-architecture
  • apple-silicon
  • graviton

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