Talk:Arm Holdings/Archives/2012

Page move
(from WP:RM)

Advanced RISC Machines &#8594; ARM Ltd

 * The company is now called ARM Ltd and is much better known as just ARM. It wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't just moved Acorn RISC Machine to ARM architecture via way of ARM Ltd. Solipsist 22:55, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Erm - Advanced RISC Machine is currently a redirect to ARM Ltd, which itself redirects to ARM architecture. Which article would you like to be moved to ARM Ltd?  In any event, any double redirects need sorting out. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:38, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * My mistake, that should be Advanced RISC Machines &#8594; ARM Ltd. -- Solipsist 06:57, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have move it back to the full name which is generally preferred for company names (AFAIK) -- Reflex Reaction  ( talk )&bull; 16:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I doubt that. I've never seen this full name used by the company itself, in external nor internal (I work for ARM) communications. Wouter Lievens 16:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I will rename the page if no complaints are risen. Wouter Lievens 22:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)


 * ARM Limited or ARM Holdings plc are both correct. Advanced RISC Machines was the company name before it floated on the London Stock Exchange, at which point it became ARM Holdings plc. ARM Limited is the holding company's UK subsidiary (and owns most of the other bits too). Advanced RISC Machines is now only ever seen on old tee-shirts. Ptoboley 21:30, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Categories
ARM isn't a "fabless semiconductor company", as ARM does not sell semiconductors which it has had made by a semiconductor fabrication company.

ARM's main business is selling processor IP to semiconductor companies, both fabless and other. Ptoboley 10:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Structure
I've added some subheadings to the entry to make it clearer. No new content was really added, it was just rearranged. Feel free to move bits around! Stuk 19:28, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Buildings
82.195.181.130 added some (incorrect) information about ARM's office building history. I'm sure some people might think the rain cover provided by the bike sheds of interest, but I doubt any of it is relevant to the company and its history.

fyi (re: incorrectness), ARM's first office was in a barn in the village of Swaffham Bulbeck. After running out of space there, ARM then moved into the (newly vacated) former offices of Acorn Computers at Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, where they continued to expand. Once space ran out at Fulbourn Road, ARM rented offices in Bateman Street, Cambridge whilst plans to develop a new building on a new site adjacent to the offices at Fulbourn Road were completed. ARM's head office is now in this new building and it occupies another building at the same site. However, throughout this time ARM has opened offices around the world, so I doubt the history of one small office in Bateman Street, Cambridge, England is really of much interest? -- Ptoboley 16:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

i added "with headquarters in" rather than "headquartered", as was being pedantic about the use of "headquartered". I feel if Wikipedia is an encyclopedia it should be precise!) Head quartered is also a verb implying the siting of an (originally frequently movable) headquarters, rather than the _location_ of the main office.  Also, headquarters are in the info box.  I ll change it to "from", which gives a better idea of the history, if no one objects Jabberwoch (talk) 13:38, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

External link to ARM based mobile device database might be added
My earlier editing was deleted, but I think an external link to http://www.jbenchmark.com/result.jsp?benchmark=ace is reasonable to be added to this article because JBenchmark ACE (ARM CPU Estimator) database is the most complete database of ARM based mobile devices currenlty on the web. (ARM also references it. See: http://www.arm.com/news/16535.html ) Kishonti 21:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I think that this should be added to the ARM Architecture page, not the ARM Ltd page. The ARM Ltd page is about ARM the company. ARM Architecture is about ARM the processors, so this is where the link should be added. Ashleystevens 11:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

ARM architecture should be about ARM the architecture, not ARM the processors; I have suggested that the processor-specific information on that page is moved. (For instance, XScale has its own page.) Ptoboley 10:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

What does "Intellectual Property" mean in the context of this article?
The article says ARM licenses intellectual property, but that is not a specific term. Could someone please clarify? Trademarks? Patents? Copyrights? All three?

--128.253.53.145 (talk) 00:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * ARM's most well known area of business is processor design. But ARM doesn't actually manufacture microchips - instead, ARM licenses its designs to microchip manufacturers. These designs usually take the form of Verilog files. These files are protected by copyright. Every so often someone at ARM comes up with a patentable invention; when a design incorporates a patented component, that part of the design is also protected by the patent. ARM-based processors are usually marketed as such, while trademark law prevents non-ARM processors from being marketed as ARM processors. So, in summary, when you license an ARM processor you get permission to use various bits of ARM intellectual property, including trademarks, patented technologies, and copyrighted design files. Mike1024 (t/c) 21:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Foundation Partners: Olivetti?
In an interview with the BBC, John Sculley says the founding investors of ARM were Hermann Hauser (3%), Apple (47%) and Olivetti (47%), not VLSI. Is he right, or is he mistaken? 9ulk (talk) 13:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject RISC OS
--trevj (talk) 20:02, 13 December 2010 (UTC)