(Sat Feb 23 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) ARM-based CPU's are going into not just mobile devices. ARM is popular in cell phones and the like because it is low power. That, and heat dissipation, is proving popular in server computers as the world moves towards cloud computing. Linus Torvalds recently suggested that software developers need ARM-based PC's to go along with ARM-based servers.