Arm is a publicly owned company headquartered in the US, with SoftBank Group as its parent company. Founded in 1990, the company employs approximately 7,470 individuals. Arm specializes in semiconductor manufacturing and manufactures semiconductor IP equipment.
A recent report projects Arm chips to power 90% of AI servers utilizing custom processors by 2029, as hyperscale cloud service providers and AI accelerator developers increasingly focus on custom general-purpose CPUs built on the Arm instruction set architecture (ISA). This projection follows Arm Holdings' entry into the chip market, a significant shift on April 4 from its long-standing business model of licensing CPU designs for smartphones, data centers, and automotive applications. Earlier on April 4, IBM announced a collaboration with Arm to develop dual-architecture enterprise hardware. This partnership aims to enhance the flexibility, reliability, and security of AI and data-intensive workloads by combining IBM’s system design expertise with Arm’s power-efficient architecture and software ecosystem.