Over the last three months 2012, ARM Holdings company made $ 262.8 million, up 21% more than the fourth quarter 2011 (it was $ 217 million). Income before taxes was $ 128 million - this corresponds to an annual increase of 16%. Since ARM itself does not produce semiconductors, and is exclusively licensed activities, its revenues and earnings depend a little on seasonal factors. Therefore, in the first quarter this year, it does not expect a significant loss of revenue, which is expected to be $ 250 million decrease in revenues of some sequences will be due to the difficult economic situation in the world.
For the quarter ARM signed 36 license agreements. 9 of them are new. The new license is interesting to note the architecture ARMv8 two and six core ARMv8 - all falls mainly on the server ground . Three of the new license is taken on the architecture ARM Cortex-A15 and four on ARM Cortex-A7. It must be remembered that the combination of Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 core is a new concept to ARM, when powerful and energy-efficient cores are working alternately. To date, the technology big.LITTLE is licensed to 16 developers.
Total for the quarter around the world sold about 2.5 billion ARM architecture . Thus, the number of shipments of semiconductors based on ARM designs for the year increased by 13%. Of these, 51% refers to the mobile solutions, 28% of the embedded, and 16% to corporate and only 5% for home (set-top boxes, smart TVs, etc).
For the entire 2012 the company made $ 913.1 million profit for the year was invested $ 442.4 million .