Arm


Arm Holdings is the world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier and as such is at the heart of the development of digital electronic products. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Arm has offices around the world, including design centers in Taiwan, France, India, Sweden, and the US.

Company Highlights

  • The world’s leading semiconductor IP company
  • Founded in 1990
  • Over 20 billion ARM based chips shipped to date
  • 800 processor licenses sold to more than 250 companies
  • Royalties received on all ARM-based chips
  • Gaining market share in long-term secular growth markets
  • Arm revenues typically grow faster than overall semiconductor industry revenues

The Arm business model involves the designing and licensing of IP rather than the manufacturing and selling of actual semiconductor chips. We license IP to a network of Partners, which includes the world's leading semiconductor and systems companies. These Partners utilize Arm IP designs to create and manufacture system-on-chip designs, paying Arm a license fee for the original IP and a royalty on every chip or wafer produced. In addition to processor IP, we provide a range of tools, physical and systems IP to enable optimized system-on-chip designs.

Arm Product Offering

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The Arm product offering: enabling leading design, implementation, and applications

With the diversity of Arm IP and the broad ecosystem of supporting silicon and software for Arm-based solutions, the world's leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) use Arm technology in a wide variety of applications ranging from mobile handsets and digital set top boxes to car braking systems and network routers. Today ARM technology is in use in 95% of smart phones, 80% of digital cameras, and 35% of all electronic devices.

Learn more about Arm’s target market segments and Arm's innovative and pioneering ecosystem (PDF download).