ARM Holdings Company after other companies published its financial report on the work in the first quarter of calendar 2014. Revealed dynamics proved disappointing, because, according to the company, in the first quarter has been inventory correction. Smartphone sales in the last three months of 2013 were much lower than expected. ARM processors cores were purchased more than actually proved necessary. As a result, significant amounts of SoC left to gather dust in warehouses, and ARM's with them or dripped penny royalties.
Externally, the overall picture is not so bad: for the first time in 2013 sold over one billion smartphones (1004.2 million). This is 4.8% more than during 2012. In the last quarter of 2013, however, expected to increase sales by 2.8% units, while the real growth was only 0.9% (data from IDC). Conditional loss in sales in the fourth quarter at 2% rebound hit the ARM's revenue and profit in the first quarter of the new year. During the reporting period ARM gained $ 305.2 million, a 16% increase compared to the same quarter last year. Profit before tax increased by only 9% to $ 163.36 million, with deliveries to core ARM chips for the year rose 11% to 2.9 billion chips. This solution not only for smartphones, but also a lot of other semiconductors - controllers and others.
ARM especially warms the idea that Apple will release the next smartphones and tablets and sales in the second half of 2014, not only to return to the previous dynamics, but also outperform it. Related Products :
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