An Architecture Built for Open-Source Freedom
Developers love innovating on the Arm architecture because of its unprecedented power efficiency that helps run applications across every area of technology, from the smallest sensor to the supercomputer. We believe the best software and developer experiences are enabled through the diversity of Arm silicon, industry collaboration, and standards where needed.
Reflecting the spirit of open source, collaboration is at the heart of what we do. Together with Arm software partner, Linaro, and our silicon and ecosystem partners, we equip software developers with everything they need to boot up, scale, deploy, port, and optimize projects, without friction. Together, we engineer common standards to help developers land their software easily everywhere and foster collaboration that helps advance innovation in all areas of compute.
Arm enables developers to access:
TrustedFirmware
Arm is a founding member of this open governance community project, providing secure software implementations and the foundation for a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on Arm A-profile and M-profile processors.
Linux Kernel
Together with Linaro, Arm builds, boosts and tests over a million Linux kernels per year, enabling all the latest Arm A-class architecture features and optimizing power/performance on Arm-based devices.
Open-Source Networking
Arm contributes to various networking open-source projects, including DPDK, FD.io/VPP, Magma, ODP, CNI, service mesh, and others
Arm Compute Library
Popular and flexible open-source library for best-in-class machine learning (ML) performance, enabling developers to source functions for accelerating their algorithms and applications on Arm.
SOAFEE
Arm is a governing body member of SOAFEE, a special interest group (SIG) working across the automotive ecosystem to enable cloud-native software development for mixed-critical workloads across cloud and vehicle.
Our open-source collaborations contribute software, tools, and standards to a range of holistic SoC design packages, providing available processors, security, system IP, interconnect technologies, and physical IP for key verticals.
For Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing and 5G
For Smartphones, Large Screen Compute and Wearables
For Industrial IoT Low Power IoT, Smart Home and Storage
Reference Design For Software Defined Vehicles
Arm Expands Open-Source Partnerships
Arm supports thousands of open-source projects in all segments, from the cloud to the edge and endpoint, with several recently expanded partnerships and commitments across the global open-source community.
Learn about some of Arm's latest open-source partnerships, reinforcing our commitment to open collaboration