Arm Holdings

Arm Holdings plc is a British semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit 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 infrastructure and software. ARM was originally an acronym for Acorn RISC Machine and later for Advanced RISC Machines. Since 2016 the company has been majority owned by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group.