ARM – The Architecture for the Digital World^®

ARM provided microprocessor and physical IP designs that were used in around a quarter of all electronic devices* sold in 2007. Because our designs offer better performance, better energy efficiency and can increase design reliability, ARM has become the architecture of choice for silicon chips. The familiarity of chip and software engineers in ARM technology combined with ARM’s investment in software, tools and an ecosystem of developers, has fuelled the growth of ARM^® technology-based designs.

* “Electronic devices” includes any devicewhich may contain digital chips with anembedded microprocessor such as audioheadsets, automotive vehicles, digital stillcameras, digital storage devices such as USB memory sticks, digital TVs, discretemicrocontrollers, DVD recorders and players,IP network routers and switches, mobilephones such as smartphones, feature phonesand low-cost voice phones, portable mediaplayers, printers, set-top boxes, smartcards,desk-top PCs, laptops and mobile computers,some programmable whitegoods such aswashing machines and dishwashers, andalso video recorders. We do not include simple electrical devices that are unlikely to contain digital chips with an embeddedmicroprocessor such as analogue telephones,lawn mowers, light-bulbs, powered hand-tools, torches, and some whitegoods such asovens and fridges. Nor do we include digitalstorage such as optical media, or discretememory chips.