Arm
Arm designs CPU architectures and semiconductor IP, including chips built for AI and agentic-AI data center infrastructure, that it licenses to chipmakers worldwide.
AI tierAI-poweredAI is real and material, but the business is not AI.
AI layerBuilds AISells AI itself: models, chips, tools, infrastructure.
In AustinOffice hereYear unknown
Why: Arm's core business is CPU architecture/IP licensing (not AI-native), but it now designs AI-specific silicon (AGI CPU, Neoverse) for agentic AI infrastructure — real, material 'builds' layer, 'powered' tier since Arm predates and extends beyond AI.
Austin office
- Austin campus (largest US site)Encino Trace, Building 15707 Southwest Pkwy, Building 1, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78735Opening year unknown