arm ltd

1 definition found

arm ltd - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
  ARM Ltd
  
     <company> (ARM) A company formed in 1990 by Acorn Computers
     Ltd., Apple Computer, Inc. and VLSI Technology to market
     and develop the Advanced RISC Machine microprocessor
     family, originally designed by Acorn.
  
     ARM Ltd. also designs and licenses peripheral chips and
     supplies supporting software and hardware tools.  In April
     1993, Nippon Investment and Finance, a Daiwa Securities
     company, became ARM's fourth investor.  In May 1994 Samsung
     became the sixth large company to have a licence to use the
     ARM processor core.
  
     The success of ARM Ltd. and the strategy to widen the
     availability of RISC technology has resulted in its chips now
     being used in a range of products including the Apple Newton
     .  As measured by an independent authority, more ARM
     processors were shipped than SPARC chips in 1993.  ARM has
     also sold three times more chips than the PowerPC
     consortium.
  
     (http://systemv.com/armltd/index.html).
  
     E-mail: armltd.co.uk.
  
     Address: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.  Fulbourn Road, Cherry
     Hinton, Cambridge CB1 4JN, UK.
  
     Telephone: +44 (1223) 400 400.  Fax: +44 (1223) 400 410.
  
     (1994-11-03)