Introducing CoreCollective for the next era of open collaboration for the Arm software ecosystem

By Mark Hambleton, SVP, Software

February 25, 2026

Backed by Arm and led by Linaro, CoreCollective is designed to drive collaboration, standardization, and innovation across the Arm software ecosystem.

If you’re part of the Arm software ecosystem, you’re likely familiar with Linaro, a leading engineering organization that built a collaborative ecosystem around the Arm platform in 2010. For more than 15 years, this ecosystem has played a pivotal role driving and advancing software innovation on the Arm compute platform – accelerating open source development, improving toolchains and standards, and helping Arm-based solutions scale across industries from cloud, to automotive, to PCs/laptops and more.  

Today, Arm is the go-to platform across cloud, edge and physical environments with new, emerging workloads placing rising demands on high performance, power-efficient compute. Solving these challenges requires more than individual innovation. It demands broad, open collaboration across a diverse group of companies.  

To meet this moment, Linaro is introducing CoreCollective, with backing from Arm. This is a new industry consortium designed to drive extensive collaboration for the realities of modern computing and the next era of the Arm software ecosystem. CoreCollective creates a neutral, open and free consortium where the thriving Arm ecosystem can collaborate to tackle shared technical challenges, drive standardization and accelerate innovation for developers. This is part of a broader organizational change announced today by Linaro. 

Broader membership paired with an open ecosystem

CoreCollective is built on a strong open source foundation and backed by deep ecosystem experience, bringing together existing and future open source efforts into one transparent, inclusive framework that strengthens every layer of the stack. Linaro provides the engineering and organizational leadership for CoreCollective. And CoreCollective is supported with financial backing from Arm. This builds on Arm’s decades of commitment to developers and open collaboration, alongside Linaro’s 15 years plus of hands-on expertise supporting Arm partners across Linux, security, cloud, edge computing, IoT, AI, automotive, CI/CD, toolchains, virtualization, and major platforms including Windows on Arm and Android. 

At launch, CoreCollective has industry-wide support from leaders. It already includes the following members aside from Arm and Linaro:  

• AMD 
• Ampere 
• Canonical 
• CIX Technology  
• Fujitsu 
• Google 
• Graphcore 
• Microsoft 
• Qualcomm 
• Red Hat 
• Samsung 
• SUSE 

These diverse industry voices will make the ecosystem stronger and speed the path from software development to deployment across Arm-based platforms.  

“Supporting the open source community is critical to accelerating innovation for developers building, testing and deploying workloads on Arm,” said Li Gong, CEO, Linaro. “Combining Linaro’s extensive experience in the Arm software ecosystem, Arm’s open source commitment and investment and broad industry support, CoreCollective is set up to deliver an open, transparent and collaborative route to addressing common industry challenges.” 

Innovation on Arm is software-led 

Sharing knowledge in an open, trusted forum like CoreCollective helps to reduce fragmentation and accelerate standardization across the Arm ecosystem, so companies can focus their innovation where it matters most, and benefit from shared progress. Trusted Firmware, an open reference implementation of Arm specifications led by Arm and operated by Linaro for quick and easy porting to modern chips and platforms, is one example of the benefits of collaborating on solving common needs as an ecosystem. 

CoreCollective strengthens the software foundation that enables developers to build once and deploy anywhere across a wide range of Arm-based technologies, scaling innovation and turning ideas into real, world-changing products. 

Combined with the knowledge and participation of a growing membership, CoreCollective positions the ecosystem to tackle both long-standing and emerging challenges and help shape the next era of computing together. 

Joining CoreCollective is free 

CoreCollective is open and free for any company interested in collaborating with others to help developers accelerate the building, testing, and deployment of workloads on Arm.  

As priorities are determined by members, working groups will be established. Focus areas include Android, Data Center, Confidential Compute, Edge, Linux Fundamentals, Virtualization and Windows on Arm. They aim to deliver standardized tooling and integration workstreams that strengthen the software ecosystem. 

If you’re interested in joining CoreCollective, visit https://corecollective.dev/ to learn more.