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Truly the power behind the throne for much of the smartphone hardware industry , ARM ’ s intellectual property can be found in 95 % of the world ’ s smartphones , and many hardware manufacturers base their SoCs on ARM components . According to The Verge , ARM “ provides the designs that chipmakers like Qualcomm , Huawei , and Samsung use to create the system-on-a-chip designs that power nearly every mobile phone ”. Founded in 1990 , the British firm ’ s tech powers over 100bn chips around the world , from smartphone systems to supercomputers . ARM ’ s latest highend products , the Cortex-A78 CPU and the Mali-G78 GPU were announced in May of this year , and will likely be core components of 2021 ’ s flagship smartphones . SEPTEMBER 2020