ARM Limited
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 27 November 1990 |
| Founders | Jamie Urquhart, Mike Muller, Tudor Brown, Lee Smith, John Biggs, Harry Oldham, Dave Howard, Pete Harrod, Harry Meekings, Al Thomas, Andy Merritt, David Seal |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Masayoshi Son (Chairman) Simon Segars (CEO) |
| Products | Microprocessor designs and graphics processing unit (GPU) designs |
| Revenue | £968.3 million (2015) |
| £406.1 million (2015) | |
| £339.7 million (2015) | |
| Total assets | $3.21 billion (2016) |
| Owner | SoftBank Group |
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Number of employees
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Circa 4,000 (2016) |
| Website | arm |
ARM Holdings plc (ARM) is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group. Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, its primary business is in the design of ARM processors (CPUs), although it also designs software development tools under the DS-5, RealView and Keil brands, as well as systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip (SoC) infrastructure and software. It is considered to be market dominant for processors in mobile phones (smartphones or otherwise) and tablet computers. The company is one of the best-known 'Silicon Fen' companies.
Processors based on designs licensed from ARM, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices. Examples include microcontrollers in embedded systems – including real-time safety systems (cars' ABS),smart TVs (Google TV), all modern smartwatches (such as Qualcomm Toq), as well as smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops,servers and supercomputers/HPC.
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