Talk:Arm Holdings/Archives/2018

Requested move 7 January 2018

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The result of the move request was: Not done (non-admin closure)  samee  talk 13:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Arm Holdings → Arm Limited – Is the current article title appropriate? The website states "Copyright © 1995-2018 Arm Limited (or its affiliates). All rights reserved." The company structure may have been changed following the SoftBank acquisition. feminist (talk) 16:11, 7 January 2018 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, this English-language page on Softbank's web site lists "Arm Holdings plc" as a "Holding company" and "Arm Limited" as a company involved in "Design of microprocessors, physical intellectual property and related technology and software, sale of development tools", so perhaps both "Arm Holdings" and "Arm Limited" exist, with "Arm Holdings" being a company, owned by Softbank, whose reason for existence is to own one or more companies, including a company named "Arm Limited", whose reason for existence is to design microprocessors, physical intellectual property and related technology and software, and to sell development tools. Guy Harris (talk) 20:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Primary sources are of little relevance here. Please see the article title policy. Andrewa (talk) 18:03, 14 January 2018 (UTC)


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ARM does not supply chips
The article contains the text: "ARM also supply chips for all common network related technologies in smartphones ..." I suggest instead:            "ARM's designs are also used in many common network related technologies in smartphones ..."

Reason: ARM does not supply chips. ARM licenses its designs to other companies who supply chips. Many of the companies that supply chips do not own chip factories (known as foundries) so they subcontract the manufacturing to specialist foundry companies such as TSMC, GlobalFoundries, etc.

ARM supplies designs for CPUs, GPUs, on chip bus fabric (also known as interconnect) and related trace components, debug components, and on-chip peripherals such as timers, interrupt controllers, cache controllers, SDRAM controllers, etc.

IJ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.140.96.140 (talk) 14:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I changed it to "ARM's core designs are also used in chips that support many common network related technologies..." - the cores are what's used, but the cores don't themselves support those networking technologies at the lowest level (ARM don't design 802.11 support, for example). Guy Harris (talk) 18:40, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Instead of just "ARM" or "Arm" the complete name of the company should be used, "Arm Holdings", to prevent confusion with the architecture. Sam Tomato (talk) 01:21, 8 February 2018 (UTC)