#arm purchase

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. The Mali GPU series is also designed by ARM. Samsung's Exynos chips are also based on ARM architecture with Cortex A53 and Cortex A57 making up the Exynos 7 and Exynos 8 Octa chips. An ARM processor is one of a family of CPUs based on the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture developed by Advanced RISC Machines (ARM). ARM makes 32-bit and 64-bit RISC multi-core processors. Read more in our articles including "ARM chip maker to be bought for $32 billion by Softbank" and "ARM announces 2.5GHz Cortex-A15 MPCore".