ARM公司是专门从事基于RISC技术芯片设计开发的公司，作为知识产权供应商，本身不直接从事芯片生产，靠转让设计许可由合作公司生产各具特色的芯片，世界各大半导体生产商从ARM公司购买其设计的ARM微处理器核，根据各自不同的应用领域，加入适当的外围电路，从而形成自己的ARM微处理器芯片进入市场。-ARM is a RISC-based technology, specializing in chip design and development company, as a supplier of intellectual property itself is not directly involved in chip production, licenses through the assignment of the design produced by the co-operation with different features of the chip, the world' s major semiconductor manufacturers from ARM Company purchase of the ARM microprocessor core design, according to their different applications, by adding an appropriate external circuit to form their own ARM microprocessor chip market.