Whether you know the name or not, you have no doubt used a device with Advanced RISC Machine Architecture (ARM) inside it. Arm is the world’s most popular processor architecture by a wide margin; responsible for tens of billions of chips sold each year and more than 230 billion in total during its thirty years.

However, unlike the other companies we’re delving into during Laptop Live this week, Arm doesn’t produce these chips, it’s the company behind the intellectual property (IP) that works to shape the design of the processor and computing platforms. software of the future.