Arm Holdings plc is a global semiconductor and software design company that develops energy-efficient, high-performance processor architectures and related technologies. The company’s core business involves licensing its intellectual property (IP) to chip manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), enabling partners to build custom system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for a wide range of applications.
Arm’s portfolio spans central processing unit (CPU) cores, graphics processing units (GPU), neural processing units (NPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and a suite of physical IP components such as interconnects and memory controllers. In addition, the company offers software development tools, security frameworks and system design services to support the integration and optimization of Arm-based SoCs.
Founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Inc. and VLSI Technology, Arm pioneered the RISC (reduced instruction set computing) approach that underpins its modern architecture. The company went public in 1998, was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2016 and re-listed on the Nasdaq in 2023. Over the decades, Arm’s designs have been deployed in billions of devices across consumer electronics, automotive, data center and Internet of Things (IoT) markets.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, Arm serves customers worldwide through regional offices in North America, Europe and Asia. The company is led by Chief Executive Officer René Haas, under whose leadership Arm continues to advance its roadmap in areas such as 5G connectivity, machine learning and heterogeneous computing platforms.