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About Arm Holdings
ARM tracks the value of 1 American depositary share of Arm Holdings plc. Arm designs and licenses CPU and GPU architectures and processor IP that power most of the world's smartphones, along with a growing range of data-center, automotive, and embedded devices.
On Lighter, ARM is a synthetic perpetual market with its own order book, so its mark price, funding rate and open interest can differ from the same instrument on another venue.
ARM is listed as a Lighter synthetic perpetual market. Prices track traditional-asset exposure synthetically and do not represent ownership of the underlying shares, ETFs, commodities, or cash instruments. Educational market data only — not investment advice.
Sector tags: Semiconductors, AI & Big Tech.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does trading ARM give me any of the rights of owning Arm Holdings stock?
- No. ARM is a synthetic perpetual with no delivery mechanism or arbitrage bridge to Arm Holdings' actual ADS. It gives price exposure only — there are no shareholder rights, no dividends, no voting rights, and no claim on the underlying shares.
- How is ARM different from other semiconductor names, like QCOM?
- ARM only designs and licenses processor architectures — it never manufactures or sells a physical chip. QCOM, by contrast, both licenses patents and designs, has manufactured, and sells physical chips (such as Snapdragon processors) built on its own and licensed architectures.
- Is Arm Holdings' stock also listed on an exchange outside the U.S.?
- No. Arm Holdings plc is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, but unlike TSM or ASML — which have both a home-market ordinary share and a separate U.S. depositary share — Arm lists its shares solely as an ADS on Nasdaq in USD, with no separate ordinary-share listing elsewhere. So ARM's price is already built on a straightforward USD-denominated ADS, with no live FX conversion step.
- ARM on Lighter is a synthetic perpetual market that tracks 1 American depositary share of Arm Holdings plc. It trades on Lighter, so you can go long or short without holding any shares.
- ARM on Lighter is a synthetic perpetual market that tracks 1 American depositary share of Arm Holdings plc. It trades on Lighter, so you can go long or short without holding any shares.
- Can ARM's price on Lighter differ from the price on other venues?
- Yes. Lighter's ARM market runs its own order book, so its mark price, funding rate, and open interest can differ from the same instrument on another venue.
- What does it mean that Lighter runs its own order book?
- An order book is the live list of buy and sell orders in a market. Because ARM on Lighter has its own book, prices are set by the orders on Lighter itself rather than imported from any other market.
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