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)
Table 2: ARM Holdings H1 2012 Financial Summary (IFRS)
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 infrastructure
Growth 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
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