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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

ARM sees 44 percent profit increase in Q1 2013, ships 2.6 billion ARM-based chips

ARM has had a great quarter -- again. This time it's seen pre-tax profits soar 44 percent, while revenues are up 26 percent (to $209.4 million) since the same period last year. The company's thanking the continued adoption of its low-power chip designs, encompassing smartphones, mobile computing and even digital TVs and wearable tech. The advanced tech within its ARMv8, Mali and big.LITTLE ranges has meant the company can command higher royalties per chip.

In total, 2.6 billion ARM-based chips have made their way into the gadgets this quarter, an increase of 35 percent year-on-year, with embedded hardware up a hefty 50 percent since Q1 2012. It's seen even better performance from its Mali graphics processor shipments, which are up five times since the same period last year. As outgoing CEO Warren East notes: "Even low cost smart devices can contain multiple ARM-based chips and be based on ARM's advanced Cortex-A series technology and Mali graphics processors." With new friends on board for the near-future, the good times are likely to continue.

Source: ARM

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

ARM sees 16 percent profit increase in Q4 2012, 21 percent increase in royalty payments

UK-based chipmaker ARM had yet another profitable quarter, announcing that the end of 2012 saw pre-tax profits of around $126 million -- an increase of 16 percent since the same period last year. Revenue totaled $262.8 million for Q4 and with a huge proportion of Android and iOS devices containing chip know-how from ARM, it continues to benefit from the smartphone boom. In fact, shipments of chips based on its processors totaled 2.5 billion in Q4 alone, while royalty revenue grew 21 percent year-on-year, thanks to successes with both its Cortex-A and Mali silicon series. ARM chief exec Warren East added that the company is "well positioned" to have a great 2013, too -- unless everyone stops buying phones all of a sudden.

Via: Reuters

Source: ARM

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Businesses expect their mobile workforce to increase by a third

Seven million more mobile workers by 2014

New research from O2 reveals that in the next two years, two thirds (65%) of British businesses expect 30% more of their employees – equivalent to just over 7 million people – to become mobile workers as the demand to work more flexibly, on the move, out of the office or from home expands.

In response to the anticipated influx of requests to out of the office, nearly three quarters (72%) of British companies are putting in place plans to transform their communications infrastructure, with 85% focusing on flexible working.

Over two thirds (67%) of businesses are already moving towards a growing trend of 'consumerisation', by allowing employees to connect their personal devices to the business network.

O2's findings suggest such progress will deliver huge benefits to UK businesses. Those identified by businesses include:

Improved business agility (91%)Cost savings (83%)Improved productivity across the business (79%)

Additionally the introduction of bring your own device (BYOD) working has encouraged 85% of enterprises to start moving to a fully consolidated voice, mobile and data network. More than half (55%) of enterprises surveyed said that they now consider consolidation a high priority for their business, an increase of nearly a quarter (24%) since 2011.