Advanced RISC Machines 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 AppleNewton. 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.

Home .

E-mail: armltd.co.uk.

Address: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Fulbourn Road, Cherry

Hinton, Cambridge CB1 4JN, UK.

Telephone: [phone]. Fax: [phone].

(1994-11-03)