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-a-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.
Arm "ABCD" building in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, UK
An ARM processor in a Hewlett-Packard PSC-1315 printer, produced for HP by STMicroelectronics
ARM Cortex A57 A53
Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s.
Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry in Cambridge
The Acorn System 1, upper board; this one was shipped on 9 April 1979.
The Acorn Atom
The BBC micro released by Acorn in 1981