Arm and Linaro have announced the formation of CoreCollective, a new industry consortium aimed at fostering collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem. The initiative includes major players such as AMD, Canonical, Google, Huawei, Qualcomm, and Red Hat. It seeks to address growing software complexities across various sectors like AI and cloud computing.
Arm, a prominent chip design company whose architectures power devices from smartphones to cloud servers, has partnered with Linaro to establish CoreCollective. This free and open consortium provides a neutral platform for companies to tackle shared challenges in the Arm software ecosystem.
Linaro, a UK-based organization founded in 2010, has long worked to unify fragmented Arm software efforts, notably contributing to Arm64 support in the Linux kernel. As part of this launch, Linaro is restructuring to host CoreCollective for open collaboration while also offering commercial services to Arm product developers.
The consortium starts with founding members including AMD, Canonical, Google, Huawei, Qualcomm, and Red Hat. Arm's expansion into areas like AI, cloud, edge, automotive, and client compute has increased software demands, which no single firm can handle alone. CoreCollective aims to facilitate joint efforts across the software stack.
At launch, seven working groups are active: Linux Fundamentals, Confidential Compute, Windows on Arm, Android, Edge Compute, Virtualization, and Data Center. Members can propose additional groups, with inactive ones archived. Membership is open to any company via a simple agreement, with tiers for general, sponsoring, and individual participants.
Contributions follow OSI-approved licenses with a Developer Certificate of Origin, while documentation uses Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Oversight comes from a Governing Board and a Technical Advisory Committee.
