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Q2 2014 Highlights ARM reports Q2 group revenues of $310m and EPS of 5.43p
Our continued strong licensing performance reflects the intent of existing and new customers to base more of their future products on ARM technology. This bodes well for growth in ARM’s medium and long-term royalty revenues.
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Simon Segars CEO
Performance overview 2014 Q2
2013 Q2
Revenue ($)
309.6m
264.3m
Licensing revenue ($)
146.1m
102.6m
Royalty Revenue ($)
135.5m
135.3m
Operating Margin
48.9%
48.6%
Earnings per share (p)
5.43p
4.89p
Dividend (p)
2.52p
2.10p
+17% +42% +0% +11% +20%
Growth drivers
41
Licenses signed by market
licences signed taking the total number of licences signed to 1,062
by processor
3
8
Home
4
13
Mali
Enterprise
Cortex-A/R
21
Mobile
13
Embedded
20
Cortex-M
Royalty units
2.7bn
by market 17%
by processor
5%
Home
33%
Enterprise
ARM-based chips reported as shipped in the quarter Total reported as shipped is more than 56 billion
43%
44%
Cortex-M
Classic ARM
Mobile
4%
35%
Cortex-R
Embedded
19%
Cortex-A
Global talent Net hires
Net hires
UK
US
73
54
+
+
Total in region 1,258
Total in region 723
Net hires
Rest of Europe
46
+
Total in region 401
Net hires Asia Pacific
Net hires
12
+
India
26
211
+
Total in region 241
Total in region 421
net hires since start of the year. Total number of employees 3,044
Key stories ARM Partners announce progress in ARMv8-A based servers: • AMD disclosed a roadmap of ARM-based chips for server and client computing markets • Applied Micro partners with multiple server companies using their X-Gene chip • Cavium disclosed details of its Thunder-X chips for data centre and cloud applications
Ecosystem announces support for ARMv8-A architecture: • Google announced the latest version of the Android operating system which includes support for the ARMv8-A architecture • Mediatek announced the MT6795 with an ARMv8-A big. LITTLE octa-core configuration for smartphones and tablets
Developer community benefit from new low-cost development boards for ARM technology: • NXP announced that its popular LPCXpresso development boards now support the ARM mbed™ platform for Internet of Things applications • Arduino Zero is a simple and powerful ARM based development board, providing creative individuals with the potential to realize truly innovative ideas.
News this quarter Click on story panels for links to more information.
AMD Unveils Ambidextrous Computing Roadmap
ARM Establishes World-Class CPU Design Center in Taiwan
Cavium Introduces ThunderX™: A 2.5 GHz, 48 Core Family of Workload Optimized Processors for Next Generation Data Center and Cloud Applications ARM acquired Duolog Technologies
NXP LPCXpresso and ARM’s mbed platform now fully aligned MediaTek Launches 64-bitTrue Octacore™ LTE Smartphone SoC with World’s First 2K Display Support
Actions Semiconductor Licenses ARM Cortex-A50 Processor Family to Target 64-bit Tablet Market AppliedMicro Announces Readiness of 64-bit ARM(R)Based Server SoC for High Performance Computing