Arm China appears to be fully independent of Arm A recent Semianalysis article by Dylan Patel goes further claiming Arm China is now an independent company from Arm . [This is refuted - see below. --JR] It all started when SoftBank formed a joint venture where Arm Limited and the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors with the venture having the exclusive right to distribute Arm's IP within China. They lost control of the company that way, but it was probably due to regulations as this type of law is common...