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Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
     
         (ARM) A company formed in 1990 by {Acorn Computers}
        Ltd., {Apple Computer, Inc.} and {VLSI Technology} to market
        and develop the {Advanced RISC Machine} {microprocessor}
        family, originally designed by Acorn.
     
        ARM Ltd. also designs and licenses peripheral chips and
        supplies supporting software and hardware tools.  In April
        1993, Nippon Investment and Finance, a Daiwa Securities
        company, became ARM's fourth investor.  In May 1994 Samsung
        became the sixth large company to have a licence to use the
        ARM processor core.
     
        The success of ARM Ltd. and the strategy to widen the
        availability of RISC technology has resulted in its chips now
        being used in a range of products including the {Apple
        Newton}.  As measured by an independent authority, more ARM
        processors were shipped than {SPARC} chips in 1993.  ARM has
        also sold three times more chips than the {PowerPC}
        consortium.
     
        {Home (http://www.systemv.com/armltd/index.html)}.
     
        E-mail: armltd.co.uk.
     
        Address: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.  Fulbourn Road, Cherry
        Hinton, Cambridge CB1 4JN, UK.
     
        Telephone: +44 (1223) 400 400.  Fax: +44 (1223) 400 410.
     
        (1994-11-03)