Talk:ARM Limited

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[edit] Advanced RISC MachinesARM Ltd

I have move it back to the full name which is generally preferred for company names (AFAIK) --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 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)

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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)

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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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)