
For example, Qualcomm's Snapdragon and NVIDIA's Tegra are ARM-based smartphone and tablet SoCs. Manufactured under license from ARM by more than a dozen semiconductor companies, billions of ARM-based devices are made every year, including smartphones, tablets, game consoles, e-book readers, netbooks, TVs and myriad other consumer and industrial products.Very often, an ARM CPU is the processor in a system-on-chip (see SoC). The ARM brand originally stood for Acorn RISC Machine and later Advanced RISC Machine.ARM chips are 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-based CPUs that are known for their low cost and low power requirements (see RISC). In 2016, ARM was acquired by Japan-based Softbank. Designed by ARM Holdings plc, Cambridge, England (the company was founded in 1990 by Acorn Computers, Apple and VLSI Technology.

The most widely used microprocessors worldwide.
