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In the late 1980s Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core.

The work was so important that Acorn spun off the design team in 1990 into a new company called Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Advanced RISC Machines became ARM Ltd when its parent company, ARM Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.