ARM has announced excellent results for its first quarter

The British ARM announces excellent results up sharply in the first quarter with sales climbing to 263.9 million dollars up 26% on year. What to rival Intel and AMD.


without any surprise,  ARM has announced excellent results for its first quarter. The UK continues its beautiful helped by a market for mobile devices constantly increasing momentum. This is confirmed in the course of ARM figures which are green for the first quarter of 2013: sales of 263.9 million dollars up 26% on year (or 170.3 million pounds and 28%) and profit (before tax) increased by 44% to 89.4 million pounds. Not to mention the operating margin of the company rises to 50.5%.

ARM, which derives its profits from the sale of licenses and royalties associated announcement still beautiful performance: +22% of license sales in one year, and 33% of revenue in royalties. Moreover, in terms of licenses, the British slowly approaching 1000 contracts with more than half involving conventional architectures (ARM 7, 9, 11, etc..), Followed by architecture Cortex-M (173 ) and Cortex-A (133). Mali, the GPU architecture of ARM, it represents about 75 licenses.

During the first quarter, ARM has delivered 2.6 billion chips, a figure up 35% yoy. It should be noted that mobile products climbed 25%, while those for embedded exploded to 50%. "During the quarter, ARM noted a real passion for their products for the next generation," said Warren East, CEO of ARM, referring to technologies for smartphones and mobile devices ARMv8, Mali and big.LITTLE.

 Slump for Intel and AMD

If all smiles at ARM, this is not currently the case for AMD and Intel who bear the brunt of the decline in the PC market. Intel announced in mid-March that its net profit fell 25% on year in the first quarter of the year, while AMD sees meanwhile melt turnover like snow (-31% in one year).

For AMD, the strategy currently being implemented should focus on the mobility aspects, but the first products of this process, however, should not be released in 2013. As for Intel, it is still struggling to impose its Atom in ultra-mobile products, and there are gaps against ARM.