📰 TECH SUPPLIER ARM HOLDINGS DEVELOPING PLANS TO HIKE PRICES, POSSIBLY MAKE ITS OWN CHIPS: SEALED COURT RECORDS For decades, the British firm kept a low profile while operating at the heart of billions of dollars of chip sales per year. It licenses the intellectual property that $AAPL, $QCOM, $MSFT and others use to design their chips, charging a small royalty for each chip produced with Arm technology.