#arm holdings

Arm Holdings plc has announced that they have made a strategic investment in Raspberry Pi. After securing their agreement with ARM, the latter company gained a minority stake in Raspberry Pi. “Arm and Raspberry Pi share a vision to make computing accessible for all, by lowering barriers to innovation so that anyone, anywhere can learn, experience and create new IoT solutions,” said Paul Williamson, SVP and GM, Internet of Things Line of Business, Arm. “With the rapid growth of edge and endpoint AI applications, platforms like those from Raspberry Pi, built on Arm, are critical to driving the adoption of high-performance IoT devices globally by enabling developers to innovate faster and more easily. Japan's Softbank has made an offer of $32 billion to buy mobile chipmaker, ARM Holdings Inc. ARM licenses its chip designs to big brands such as Samsung, Apple, NVidia, Qualcomm, Huawei/HiSilicon and many others. ARM usually licenses processor designs to companies like Qualcomm or Nvidia, who get chips made from contract chip makers like GlobalFoundries and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.). These chips are based on the design and architecture of ARM chips like the Cortex A53, Cortex A72 and A73. Read more in our articles including "ARM invests minority stake in Raspberry Pi" and "ARM chip maker to be bought for $32 billion by Softbank".