Arm Holdings’ full-year profit grows on the back of Apple iPhone sales February 11, 2015 Software design company Arm Holdings’ full year profit jumped 13 per cent to £411.3m, after the iPhone 6, holding the company’s core chip technology, enjoyed record sales. The Cambridge-based company, most known for selling microchips to smartphone giants Samsung and Apple, saw its revenue rise 11 per cent to £795.2m. Apple, one of Arm’s biggest [...]
Arm buys into the Internet of Things with acquisition of Dutch firm Offspark February 9, 2015 It looks like UK chip designer Arm Holdings sees its future in internet-ready fridges. The company has just announced the acquisition of Offspark, a Dutch firm which specialises in security software for the Internet of Things. There are signs the Internet of Things is finally making headway, with headline grabbers like Google's $3.2bn (£2bn) acquisition [...]
Arm unveils next generation mobile chips three times more powerful that use 75pc less energy February 3, 2015 British chip designer Arm Holdings has unveiled its next generation in mobile processors which it says will make next year’s smartphones 50 times more powerful than those from five years ago. The FTSE 100 firm’s marketing chief Ian Drew said the new high-end chip design, known as the ARM Cortex-A72 processor, already has 10 licensees [...]