11 Facts About ARM Ltd

Processors based on designs licensed from Arm, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM Ltd instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices.

Intel competed with ARM Ltd-based chips in mobile, but Arm no longer has any competition in that space .

Acronym ARM Ltd was first used in 1983 and originally stood for "Acorn RISC Machine".

Company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines ARM Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology.

ARM Ltd invested in Palmchip Corporation in 1997 to provide system on chip platforms and to enter into the disk drive market.

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ARM Ltd was first listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998 and by February 1999, Apple's shareholding had fallen to 14.

In 2010, ARM Ltd joined with IBM, Texas Instruments, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Freescale Semiconductor in forming a non-profit open source engineering company, Linaro.

Unlike most traditional microprocessor suppliers, such as Intel, Freescale and Renesas, ARM Ltd only creates and licenses its technology as intellectual property, rather than manufacturing and selling its own physical CPUs, GPUs, SoCs or microcontrollers.

ARM Ltd968E-S was used to build the neuromorphic supercomputer, SpiNNaker .

Processors based on designs licensed from Arm, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM Ltd instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices .

In October 2018, ARM Ltd Holdings partnered with Intel in order to share code for embedded systems through the Yocto Project.