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British chip design company ARM has seen rough days in the last few years: a merger with Nvidia fell through, and plans for an IPO were put on hold as semiconductor companies got caught in the middle of countries battling over chip supremacy. ARM was once considered dead-on-arrival in servers, but the narrative has changed with the big three cloud providers putting ARM processor designs in cloud native environments.

At the recent https://devsummit.arm.com/flow/arm/devsummit22/home/page/lp/ conference, the company outlined its software development efforts for cloud native, server and embedded computing environments over the next two years.

The Android OS revolves around ARM, and embedded applications are tuned to run on power-efficient edge devices with ARM processors.

A lot of the software developments will be targeted at the company’s ARMv9 architecture, which will define next-generation server chips.