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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, 3D processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies.

The ARM business model involves the designing and licensing of IP rather than the manufacturing and selling of actual semiconductor chips. It licences its IP to a network of 'Partners', which includes the world's leading semiconductor and systems companies. These Partners utilise ARM's IP designs to create and manufacture system-on-chip designs, paying ARM a license fee for the original IP and a royalty on every chip or wafer produced. In order to maximise the range of users of ARM products, the Company provides a range of tools, software and systems IP to facilitate adoption and incorporation.


With ARM's diversity of IP and broad range of performance features, the world's leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) use ARM's IP in a wide variety of applications ranging from mobile handsets and digital set top boxes to car braking systems and network routers. The 5 key market segments the Company addresses are:

1) Embedded Solutions,
2) Enterprise Solutions,
3) Home Solutions,
4) Mobile Solutions, and
5) Emerging Applications.


Today ARM technology is used in more than 90% of the world’s mobile handsets and ARM is continually growing in usage in the non-mobile markets as well.

ARM provides developers with intellectual property (IP) solutions in the form of processors, physical IP, cache and SoC designs, application-specific standard products (ASSPs), related software and development tools — everything you need to create an innovative product design based on industry-standard components that are ‘next generation’ compatible.