ARM Nurtures the Business Ecosystem from the Beginning

Ke Rong and Yongjiang Shi
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Ke Rong: Bournemouth University
Yongjiang Shi: University of Cambridge

Chapter 5 in Business Ecosystems, 2015, pp 93-108 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ARM is the world’s leading semiconductor IP (intellectual property) supplier. IP1 is designed to generate a specific function, which is equivalent to the heart of semiconductor chips. ARM has offered the IP license business model to those IC design companies. Following the business model, IC design companies develop their chips by combining different IPs from ARM with their own design to deliver the chips. ARM charges license fees to partners using ARM’s IP to design other chips. ARM also gets a royalty fee when partners ship ARM-IP-based chips. In order to attract more users, ARM set up a ‘connected community’ in order to provide their partners with a range of tools, software and systems IP to facilitate adoption and incorporation (Finlay 2002). ARM also licenses the IPs to chip manufacturers to improve their technique for manufacturing ARM-based chips.2 ARM-IP-based chips are used by different OEMs for different digital markets including the mobile, computing, embedded and home market.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Mobile Phone; Software Vendor; Mobile Market; Connected Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137405920_5

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