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Arm Holdingsvs.GlobalFoundries

ARM vs GFS · both in Chips & accelerators, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Designs and builds the processors, accelerators and memory that train and run AI.

Arm Holdings is about 9.2× larger than GlobalFoundries by market cap; GlobalFoundries trades at the lower P/E (48.6 vs 385.9); year to date, Arm Holdings leads (+195.8% vs +97.5%).

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ARMGFS
Market cap$349B$37.8B
Price$323.39$68.97
Today−1.4%−1.1%
Return YTD+195.8%+97.5%
Return 1Y+117.7%+67.3%
P/E385.948.6
P/S70.95.5
P/B42.13.2

Data as of 2026-07-11 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

Arm HoldingsARM

NASDAQ · Storbritannien

Designs the chip architectures and instruction sets licensed into nearly every mobile and server chip — earning royalties per chip produced.

Chip IPAI hardwareRoyalty model
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GlobalFoundriesGFS

NASDAQ · USA

Foundry specializing in mature process technologies — chips for automotive, defense and communications rather than the most advanced AI chips.

FoundryAuto/defense chips
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