Who owns arm now?

Who owns arm now?

SoftBank Group
Arm Holdings/Parent organizations
After nearly two decades as a standalone public company, Arm then became an M&A target of its own: In July 2016, SoftBank agreed to buy the company for £23.4 billion, or about $32 billion at the time. The deal was finalized a few months later, on Sept. 5, 2016.

What kind of processor is the ARM Cortex-A17?

The ARM Cortex-A17 is a 32-bit processor core implementing the ARMv7-A architecture, licensed by ARM Holdings. Providing up to four cache-coherent cores, it serves as the successor to the Cortex-A9 and replaces the previous ARM Cortex-A12 specifications.

What kind of microarchitecture is the Cortex-A57?

ARM Cortex-A57. The ARM Cortex-A57 is a microarchitecture implementing the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings. The Cortex-A57 is an out-of-order superscalar pipeline.

When did the ARM Cortex-A57 A1100 come out?

Intended for servers, the A1100 has four or eight Cortex-A57 cores, support for up to 128 GiB of DDR3 or DDR4 RAM, an eight-lane PCIe controller, eight SATA (6 Gbit/s) ports, and two 10GigE ports. The A1100 series was released in January 2016, with four and eight core versions.

Why was the ARM Cortex-A12 core renamed?

ARM renamed Cortex-A12 to a variant of Cortex-A17 since the second revision of the A12 core in early 2014, because these two were indistinguishable in performance and all features available in the A17 were used as upgrades in the A12.