ARM: the embedded software company that powers your everyday life
What’s the common attribute between the following electronic devices?
- Garmin StreetPilot i3
- Samsung i320
- Apple iPod Nano
- Apple iPod Shuffle
- Microsoft Zune
- Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter
- JVC Digital Handycam GR-DV300
- Tom Tom Go 300 GPS Portable Navigation system
- Motorola A1200 ‘Ming’
- Sony Playstation 3 (60GB)
- Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox T Series
- Sony PlayStation Portable – PSP
- Sony Ericsson W950
- Sony Ericsson P990
- Nintendo DS
- Magellan RoadMate 3000
- LEGO Mindstorms NXT
- Motorola E680i Mobile Phone
- Samsung SGHi520
- Sharp IT-32X2 LCD Network TV
..and many others?
The answer: its embedded software were all designed by the same company.
ARM, a British company, sells ready-to-use software bricks to basically all consumer electronic device manufacturers, from all over the world (its client base being obviously Asian). Shame on me, I didn’t know this London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq-listed company before I bumped on it in a magazine for Geeks a few days ago. Industrializing software (ie selling bricks of ready-to-use software like some garment manufacturers sell ready-to-wear clothes) what an amazing idea!
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ARM might be British, but it is an Intel’s subsidiary…
I don’t think so Steve. Where did you get that from?
As a proof, here’s the history of ARM, extracted from the official corporate backgrounder .pdf:
“The History of ARM
ARM was established in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd., a UK-based
joint venture between Apple Computer, Acorn Computer Group and VLSI Technology.
Apple and VLSI both provided funding, while Acorn supplied the technology and the 12
founding ARM engineers. Acorn, developer of the world’s first commercial single-chip
RISC processor, and Apple, intent on advancing the use of RISC technology in its own
systems, chartered ARM with creating a new processor standard. ARM immediately
differentiated itself in the market by creating the first low-cost RISC architecture.
Conversely, competing architectures, which were more commonly focused on
maximising performance, were first used in high-end workstations.
With the introduction of its first embedded RISC processor, the ARM6™ family of
processors, in 1991, ARM signed VLSI as its initial licensee. One year later, Sharp and
GEC Plessey entered into licensing agreements, with Texas Instruments and Cirrus Logic
following suit in 1993. Over the years, ARM has significantly expanded both its IP
portfolio and its Partner base. After the 1993 addition of Nippon Investment and Finance
(NIF) as a shareholder, the company began establishing a global presence, opening new
offices in Asia, the US and Europe. In April 1998, the company listed on the London
Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. More recently, in December 2004, ARM acquired Artisan
Components.
ARM is now a global corporation with more than 1,250 employees and facilities in 12
countries on three continents, with design centers in: Blackburn, Cambridge and Sheffield
in the UK; Sophia Antipolis in France; Bangalore in India; Sunnyvale, San Diego and
Walnut Creek in California; Cary in North Carolina and Austin in Texas. The company
also maintains sales, administrative and support offices in Belgium, China, France,
Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the UK and the US.”
Yep, you’re right. Actually Intel just bought a small stake in ARM’s capital a few years ago. I thought it was more thant that actually.
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