Arm Holdings

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British multinational semiconductor and software design company

Arm Holdings plc is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM architecture family of instruction sets. It also designs other chips, provides software development tools under the DS-5, RealView and Keil brands, and provides systems and platforms, system-on-chip (SoC) infrastructure and software. As a holding company, it also holds shares of other companies. Since 2016, it has been majority owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group.

Also known as...Advanced RISC Machine, ARM Holdings plc, ARM Ltd., Advanced RISC Machines, ARM Limited, ARM Holdings plc., Arm Limited (Cambridge), and ARM