"The company was founded as Advanced RISC Machines, ARM, a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology." http://

"The company was founded as Advanced RISC Machines, ARM, a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings Apple have been involved with ARM since the start, back in 1990.