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.
On February 20, 2026, a case study explored Arm Cortex processors and the Dart programming language, noting that Arm Holdings designs these processors as the foundation for modern computing across a wide range of devices. Semiconductor companies license these processor cores to integrate into system-on-chips (SoCs) for applications spanning smartphones to embedded sensors.