ARM Holdings PLC ARM

What this company does

Arm's primary business is licensing its IP products to semiconductor companies, OEMs, CSPs and other organizations to design their chips. Its CPU products address requirements for performance, power, and specific use cases, and its complementary products include GPU and NPU accelerators and system IP such as interconnects. As of March 31, 2026, more than 350 billion Arm-based chips were reported as shipped cumulatively. Its royalty revenue from the mobile applications processors market constituted approximately 43% of its total royalty revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. Approximately 84% of its global employees, as of March 31, 2026, were focused on research, design, and technical innovation, and it has global operations and research and development centers in the U.K., Europe, North America, India, and Asia-Pacific. Arm was established in 1990 as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer, and VLSI Technology, and was publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market from 1998 until 2016, when it was taken private by SoftBank Group, its controlling shareholder.

Written from the business description in ARM HOLDINGS PLC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 May 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.