Outside of the laptop, desktop, and server computer markets where Intel’s x86 architecture dominates, the ARM instruction set/architecture pretty much dominates everything else in computing. Your cellphones, cars, trucks, TVs, DVRs, microwave ovens, refrigerators, ATM machines, credit card readers, printers, cash registers, ... if it has a microprocessor in it, chances are it runs on ARM technology. Change of control for a company with such ubiquitous reach to all corners of the electronic/computing market is noteworthy.
