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Arm Norway

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Arm Norway
Company typeSubsidiary
Founded2001 (research started in 1998)
HeadquartersTrondheim,Norway
ProductsSemiconductor intellectual property,Maliand Immortalis GPUs
ParentArm

Arm Norwayis afablesssemiconductorcompany based inTrondheim,Norwayfounded in 2001, asFalanx Microsystems AS.Falanx Microsystems was spun off a 1998 research project from theNorwegian University of Science and Technology.[1][2]It was acquired byARM Holdingsin June 2006, and renamed to Arm Norway.[3]

Arm Norway works withArm's Cambridge and Austin design centres to developgraphics processing unitsforOpenGL,OpenGL ES,DirectXandVulkanthree-dimensionalrendering, with emphasis on low electric power consumption, suitable for use in portable devices likemobile phones.Their products are marketed under theMalibrand. Other Mali products includehardware accelerationforimage, video and display processing.

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  1. ^Smith, Ryan."ARM's Mali Midgard Architecture Explored".anandtech.Retrieved2019-05-28.
  2. ^"Falanx Microsystems AS".Semiconductor Engineering.Retrieved2019-05-28.
  3. ^Acquisition of Falanx Microsystems
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