“The consumer wins either way”: Arm’s Chris Bergey on the rise of Arm computing and the rivalry with x86

Arm SVP/GM, Client Line of Business, Chris Bergey.

A decade ago, it might’ve sounded backward to propose that smartphone technology would inform computer hardware, but that’s become a reality in 2025, thanks to Apple, MediaTek, and Qualcomm.

Arm, the UK-based semiconductor design house, is responsible for creating processing cores that implement the Arm instruction set for RISC (reduced instruction set computer) machines.