ARC International plc (traded on the
London Stock Exchange, under ticker symbol ARK) is the developer of configurable processor technology. ARC licenses configurable CPU/DSP processors and multimedia subsystems.The roots of ARC International date back to the early 1990s. Originally Argonaut RISC Core, it was a hardware design division of
Argonaut Software, which designed a configurable
microprocessor core for use in embedded applications. One of the first uses was in
1993 for the
Super FX chip used in
Super Nintendo video games. It was spun-off as a separate company in
1998. As part of Argonaut, a software provider to game companies, the design team developed customized microprocessors. The technology to create customized designs evolved into the ARChitectâ„¢ configurator tool.
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