# ARM HOLDINGS PLC /UK

Summary updated: 2026-09-28T11:19:25.230319Z
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## Overview

Arm Holdings plc is a UK-based semiconductor technology company headquartered in Cambridge. It designs and licenses energy-efficient computing technology, including processor architectures, CPU designs and related intellectual property, rather than primarily manufacturing chips. Customers incorporate Arm technology into chips used in smartphones and PCs, data centers, vehicles and embedded devices. Arm earns revenue from licensing its technology and from royalties on products that use it. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431418)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431344)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431276)

Arm states that its mission is to help solve major challenges through technology that reaches everyone. Its operations span multiple countries, with employees in the UK, US, India and elsewhere. For the fiscal year ended March 2025, Arm reported $4.0 billion in revenue and, at year-end, approximately 8,330 employees. [4](https://careers.arm.com/10x-mindset)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17676468)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431476)
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## Products & services

Arm licenses processor designs and related technology for use in chips. Its CPU families include Cortex-A for devices running operating systems and applications, Cortex-R for real-time embedded processing, Cortex-M for microcontrollers, and Neoverse for cloud and other infrastructure computing. The portfolio spans different performance, power and chip-area requirements rather than a single finished processor product. [7](https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu)[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431418)

Complementary products include Immortalis and Mali graphics processors; Ethos neural-processing units for on-device machine-learning inference; and CoreLink interconnect IP, which links processors, accelerators, memory and other components within a chip. CoreSight supplies debug and trace capabilities. Arm also offers compute subsystems that combine Arm technologies in pre-integrated, pre-verified configurations, alongside development software and tools. Its Kleidi libraries help developers optimize AI applications on Arm-based chips. [8](https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-multimedia)[9](https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/ethos/ethos-u85)[10](https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-system)[11](https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-system/coresight-debug-trace/soc-600)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431545)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431293)

Customers can license individual technologies or obtain broader portfolio access through Arm Total Access and Arm Flexible Access; Arm also generally receives royalties on chips shipped using its IP. Arm reports revenue by license and royalty category, not by CPU, GPU or other product family. In fiscal 2025, license and other revenue represented approximately 46% of total revenue and royalties approximately 54%. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431437)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431422)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431344)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17676443)
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## Geographic presence

Arm Holdings plc is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, where it leases approximately 419,000 square feet of office space. It also lists leased facilities in Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan and the United States, as well as elsewhere in the U.K. Its workforce spans 19 countries, though it does not disclose employee counts by location. [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431400)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153431914)

In the fiscal year ended March 2025, revenue attributed to customers headquartered in the United States was $1.72 billion, or approximately 42.8% of total revenue. Customers headquartered in the People’s Republic of China accounted for $749 million (18.7%); Taiwan, $629 million (15.7%); the Republic of Korea, $324 million (8.1%); and other countries, $589 million (14.7%). These figures are based on customers’ principal headquarters, not necessarily where products incorporating Arm technology are sold. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17676485)[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153432445)
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## Business segments

Arm reports a single operating segment; it does not report separate segments for its products or end markets. That segment encompasses licensing semiconductor intellectual property, including CPU designs, GPU and NPU technology, system IP and compute subsystems, alongside related software, tools and services. [21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153435501)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153434055)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153434828)

Arm disaggregates revenue by type rather than by business segment. In the fiscal year ended March 2026, royalty revenue was $2.613 billion, or approximately 53% of total revenue. Royalties are generally earned on chips shipped using Arm technology. License and other revenue was $2.307 billion, or approximately 47%, reflecting fees for access to Arm designs and other offerings. These are revenue categories, not separately reported operating segments. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17676551)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153434057)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P153435501)
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## Company history

Arm’s origins lie in the processor work of Acorn Computers, whose ARM1 chip was produced in 1985. In 1990, Apple, Acorn and VLSI Technology formed Advanced RISC Machines as a separate company in Cambridge, and Robin Saxby became its chief executive in 1991. Arm first listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in 1998. [26](https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0013/latest/Introduction/History)[27](https://archivesit.org.uk/interviews/sir-robin-saxby/)[28](https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-ipo)

Arm expanded its technology portfolio by acquiring graphics developer Falanx in 2006; its first Mali graphics processor followed in 2007. In 2011, it publicly previewed ARMv8, an architecture supporting 64-bit processing. SoftBank completed its acquisition of Arm in 2016, taking it private. Arm returned to the public market in 2023 through a Nasdaq initial public offering. [29](https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/mobile-graphics-ten-things-you-need-to-know)[30](https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/the-armv8-a-architecture-and-its-ongoing-development)[31](https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20160905)[32](https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering)
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