Arm Holdings

Arm is a British semiconductor and software design company founded in Cambridge in 1990, spun out of Acorn Computers. Acorn’s engineers had created the ARM1 chip in 1985 for the Archimedes computer - a groundbreaking processor that was simple, efficient, and powerful despite using far fewer transistors than rivals. This design philosophy of low‑power, high‑performance computing became Arm’s hallmark.

Rather than manufacturing chips itself, Arm licenses its processor architectures to companies such as Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA, who build their own chips based on Arm’s designs. More than 325 billion Arm‑based chips have since been shipped worldwide, powering smartphones, tablets, IoT devices, cars, and increasingly cloud computing and AI. Today, Arm’s influence traces directly back to the ARM1 chip, whose efficient design principles still shape modern computing.

Arm is a strong supporter of the museum and we work closely with their Sustainability team on our Education and volunteering programmes.

For more information visit their website at www.arm.com