Link: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news877.html?PHPSESSID=1db541a41df9c6fdea52976d0ef6dd6f

...“Palmchip offers a highly competitive plug-and-play SOC solution,” said Jim Turley, senior vice president of technology, ARC. “Our partnership with Palmchip demonstrates our continued commitment to developing strategic alliances with innovative companies so we can provide our customers with a broad range of leading-edge SOC solutions.”

And this completes the connection:

``...Core and core-tool vendor Palmchip Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) said it has secured first-round funding of $13 million from a venture capital syndicate led by Index IT, a division of Beeson Gregory (London).

ARM Holdings, an early corporate investor in Palmchip, has restructured its investment and retains a minority position below 10 percent.``

Link:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/core_competency/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17406554

Now what is ARC to ARM:

Link:

http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100599

An interesting quote: ``... When asked if ARC was letting rivals, such as ARM Holdings plc, MIPS Technologies Inc. and Tensilica Inc., infringe on its patents, Schlachte said: “ARM and MIPS endorsing configurability is a good thing.”

He added: “We have a duty to investors to protect our position. We vigorously defend our intellectual property but we prefer to work with all companies to endorse configurability. We are, after all, an intellectual licensing company,” Schlachte said.

So what does all this mean? - Well, there`s no *Direct* relationship between Turley and ARM Holdings, but although ARC and ARM were direct competitors they were both invested in Palmchip at once point...and you can bet since Turley was CTO at ARC, he knew darn well what Palmchip had and what ARM got....

FWIW....maybe something, maybe nothing...

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