Chip design company sees quarterly revenues rise 15% year-on-year
July 26, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the second quarter and half year ended 30 June 2012.Table 1: ARM Holdings Q2 2012 Financial Summary (IFRS)
Q2 2012 | Q2 2011 | |
Revenue ($m) | 213.0 | 190.2 |
Revenue (�m) | 135.5 | 117.8 |
Operating margin | 37.8% | 27.1% |
Profit before tax (�m) | 54.8 | 33.8 |
Earnings per share (pence) | 2.83 | 1.93 |
Source: ARM Holdings |
Table 2: ARM Holdings H1 2012 Financial Summary (IFRS)
H1 2012 | H1 2011 | |
Revenue ($m) | 422.4 | 375.7 |
Revenue (�m) | 268.0 | 233.9 |
Operating margin | 37.2% | 26.1% |
Profit before tax (�m) | 106.2 | 64.2 |
Earnings per share (pence) | 5.53 | 3.51 |
Source: ARM Holdings |
Progress on key growth drivers in Q2
Growth in adoption of ARM processor technology
- 23 processor licenses signed across key target markets from microcontrollers to mobile computing
- ARM’s momentum in networking continues with an ARMv8 architecture license for intelligent networking applications, and Freescale announcing their first ARM-processor based chips for network infrastructureGrowth in shipments of chips based on ARM processor technology
- 2.0 billion chips shipped into a wide range of applications, up 9% year-on-year compared with industry shipments being down 4%
- Processor royalties grew 14% year-on-year compared with a decline in industry revenues of 7%Growth in outsourcing of new technology
- 3 Mali graphics processor licenses signed in Q2, of which two were with new customers for Mali technology
- 5 physical IP Processor Optimisation Packs licensed, enhancing ARM’s royalty opportunity per chip
ARM Ltd.
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