Summary
- Linaro introduces CoreCollective, a neutral, open consortium backed by Arm that brings the ecosystem together to solve shared software challenges
- CoreCollective launches with industry-wide support from leaders including AMD, Ampere, Canonical, CIX Technology, Fujitsu, Google, Graphcore, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Samsung and SUSE
- Linaro becomes a fully commercial services provider for customers building products on Arm, in addition to being host to collaboration platforms such as CoreCollective
Cambridge, UK — February 25, 2026 — Linaro Limited, the leading engineering organization driving software enablement in the Arm ecosystem, today announced the launch of CoreCollective, an open consortium backed by Arm that aims to help companies solve shared software challenges.
Moving forward, Linaro will operate with two distinct focus areas. Through CoreCollective, its renowned open source collaboration will be more accessible than ever. In parallel, Linaro will become a fully commercial services provider, working with companies to build high-performing and compliant open source powered products on Arm.
“Linaro has been a catalyst for the Arm ecosystem, driving the open source software collaboration that enabled and enhanced Arm on all major operating systems and cloud providers,” said Li Gong, Linaro CEO. “As the ecosystem expands, we must scale our impact. CoreCollective with Arm’s backing removes the financial barrier to entry, making collaboration more inclusive, free and open to anyone to join and participate. By running CoreCollective alongside Linaro’s commercial services, we can support more partners in the Arm ecosystem, be it through industry-wide cooperation or tailored, one-to-one service agreements.”
CoreCollective: An Ecosystem-Led Model Backed by Arm and Industry Leaders
Arm is the industry’s most pervasive, high-performing and power-efficient compute platform, with 22 million software developers building the future of AI on Arm today. Since 2010, Linaro has played a pivotal role in accelerating the deployment of Arm-based solutions through engineering achievements and community building. CoreCollective brings these existing and future open source efforts into one transparent, inclusive framework that strengthens every layer of the stack, from the Linux kernel to firmware to frameworks, all working seamlessly on the Arm architecture.
Hosted by Linaro, which provides organizational and engineering leadership, and supported with financial backing from Arm, CoreCollective enables companies to work collectively and accelerate developer innovation.
“New workloads, including AI, are pushing performance, efficiency and security needs to new highs. To continue to scale demands new levels of ecosystem collaboration,” said Mark Hambleton, SVP Software, Arm. “CoreCollective is set up to enable us to come together to solve challenges in an open model, with a shared vision to help developers innovate faster on Arm as we build the next era of AI and compute.”
The consortium’s growing membership represents a diverse cross-section of the technology ecosystem including AMD, Ampere, Canonical, CIX Technology, Fujitsu, Google, Graphcore, Huawei, Qualcomm and SUSE. CoreCollective will establish working groups focused on high-priority areas such as Android, Confidential Compute, Edge Platforms, Linux Fundamentals, Virtualization and Windows on Arm, and deliver standardized tooling and integration workstreams that strengthen the software ecosystem. It is free and open to any company helping developers build, test and deploy secure workloads on Arm. Learn more and join to contribute at corecollective.dev.
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Linaro empowers rapid product deployment within the dynamic Arm ecosystem. Our cutting-edge software solutions and collaborative platforms facilitate the swift development, testing, and delivery of Arm-based innovation, enabling businesses to stay ahead in today’s competitive technology landscape. Our expertise and contributions spread from Kernel, Testing, Security, Cloud and Edge Computing to IoT, AI, Automotive, CI/CD, Toolchain and Virtualization.
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