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The chip designer will reportedly work with manufacturing partners to create the chip.

A report byThe Financial Timesdetails Arms ongoing effort to make its own chips.

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Arm usually licenses its designs to chipmakers like Qualcomm, but the company is reportedly working on its own prototype.

Generally, Arm focuses on licensing its designs to other companies and does not produce semiconductors.

Instead, Qualcomm, Apple, and other chip makers use Arm’s designs to produce chips.

That’s not the case, however, with Arm’s reported plans.

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Kechichian previously worked at NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm.

That stance is consistent with Arm’s strategy up to this point.

Designs from Arm are used by several large players in the chip industry, including Qualcomm and Apple.

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It would be a radical shift in strategy for Arm to directly compete with its clients.

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