ARM company reported the financial result for the first calendar quarter of this year . In contrast to the situation on the market of computers, ARM is doing just fine. During the reporting period, the company raised $ 263.9 million, or 26% more than the result in the first quarter last year. However, in the next quarter, a slight decline in revenue will occur as manufacturers of smartphones and tablets in the first quarter decreased production of semiconductors, which means that after a quarter ARM will not receive some share of deductions.
Of all of the licensed activity ARM earned $ 94.9 million - up to 26% compared to the first quarter 2012. License from the sale of ready-processors (cores) brought the company $ 80.8 million and license sales architectures and instruction sets - $ 14.1 million (a similar license, for example, acquires Qualcomm company, then to create their own unique ARM-compatible development) . The rate of ARM return is then equal to 94.3% (previous quarter - 95.1% -94.4% in the previous year). For Chinese OEM-manufacturer profit margins, for example, is estimated 1.5-2.5%.
During the first quarter ARM signed 22 new contracts for the licensing of finished cores (CPUs), primarily for use in smartphones and tablets. Seven licensees have acquired the rights to release processors on the architecture Cortex-A50 (Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57), than to increase the number of licensees on the latest development of ARM to 16 participants. Apparently, by summer we will hear about interesting processors on Cortex-A50. It is important to note that the sale of licenses for Cortex-A50 is accompanied by selling the rights to use of technology big.LITTLE - cluster structure of high-power processors and energy-efficient cores.
Also, new customers on a 64-bit architecture, ARMv8, which are now nine
The demand for graphic core ARM. As reported in the company - five times over the past year. ARM has already been able to find buyers for the latest graphic design - GPU (graphics processing unit) Skrymir. Companies have much to be proud of.