Treasury Stock/Share Allotment

ARM HOLDINGS PLC

Transfer of Treasury Shares and Allotment of Shares

ARM Holdings plc ("the Company") announces that on 1 September 2016 the following ordinary shares were transferred from treasury stock for the purpose of satisfying employee share scheme allotments:

5,226,282 ordinary shares at 0.05 pence per share

In addition, 20,193,736 new ordinary shares of 0.05 pence each in the Company have been or will be issued in order to satisfy outstanding employee share scheme allotments.

A total of 25,420,018 ordinary shares will therefore be admitted to listing using the Company's existing block listings granted for the purpose of employee share scheme allotments.

Following the above allotments and transfers of treasury stock, the Company holds no ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue is 1,433,652,321.