This trend is set to accelerate as demand for electric andautonomous vehiclesgrows.
Financial problemsat parent company Softbankand an expanding pool of rivals have triggered concerns about Arms long-term prospects.
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As such, advances into the automotive space is a logical next step for Arm.
Another risk for Arm is increasing competition from the RISC-V Foundation.
Headquartered in Switzerland, the nonprofit produces an open-source chip architecture thats attracting swelling interest.
RISC-V has provenparticularly popular in China, where it could spur self-sufficiency in semiconductors and circumvent US export restrictions.
But its also caught the eye of Silicon Valley.
The architecture recently earned a glowing endorsement from Google.
RISC-V could be regarded as more risky.
The British firm does, however, have a big headstart in the automotive sector.
The automotive sector also has a high level of ecosystem complexity and historical conservatism.
In the automotive sector, however, the open-source challenger is still playing catch-up.
Story byThomas Macaulay
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
