ARM

Mobile processor design

ARM is a British semiconductor company whose processor architecture dominates mobile devices and increasingly appears in laptops and servers.

The design emphasizes energy efficiency over raw power: Most smartphones run on ARM chips.

The name originally stood for Acorn RISC Machine. (Lowercase arm is a body part or weapon.)

Opposites
body part anatomy

ARMleg

Ambulatory limb

legs · foot · feet · lower limb · torso

weaponry/military action

ARMdisarm

Remove capacity to harm

disarmament · demilitarize · decommission · demobilize · unarmed

computer architecture

ARMx86

Intel processor architecture

Intel · AMD · Pentium · Xeon · PowerPC

Phrases
Family

army, arms, armor, armed, disarm, firearm, armful, unarmed, forearm

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