Arm’s FY2023 revenue hit $3.223 billion, a 14% year over year jump, while smartphone chips built on Arm architecture accounted for 95% of global shipments in Q4 2023. From $1.764 billion in royalty income to licensing growth driven by AI and data center deals, the dataset tracks how Arm turns architecture adoption into measurable financial momentum.
Key Takeaways
- Arm Holdings plc reported total revenue of $3.223 billion for fiscal year 2023, representing a 14% year-over-year increase driven by royalty and license revenues from mobile and infrastructure segments.
- Arm's royalty revenue reached $1.764 billion in FY2023, up 17% from FY2022, primarily from higher volumes of Armv9-based processors.
- Arm's non-royalty revenue (licensing) was $1.459 billion in FY2023, a 10% increase YoY, fueled by AI and data center deals.
- Global smartphone processors using Arm architecture held 99% market share in 2023.
- Arm-based processors powered 95% of smartphones shipped worldwide in Q4 2023, totaling over 300 million units.
- Armv8 architecture maintained 90% dominance in mobile SoCs in 2023, with Armv9 adoption at 20%.
- Microsoft and Arm partnered for Windows on Arm, targeting 500 million devices by 2028.
- NVIDIA and Arm collaboration on Grace Hopper superchip powers top supercomputers.
- AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure each run Arm-based Graviton/TPU instances at scale.
- Apple shipped 232 million iPhones in FY2023, all powered by Arm-based A-series chips.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon processors (Arm-based) shipped 150 million units in smartphones in 2023.
- MediaTek Dimensity (Arm) chips accounted for 120 million smartphone shipments in 2023.
- Arm Neoverse V3 core delivers 2.6x performance per socket vs. previous gen in cloud workloads.
- Armv9-A architecture provides 30% integer performance uplift and 60% ML performance gain over Armv8.
- CMN-4 coherent mesh interconnect supports 5.6TB/s bandwidth for AI training clusters.
Arm’s FY2023 revenue surged on rising royalty and AI licensing, while Arm-powered phones dominated worldwide.
Related reading
01 · Category
Financial Performance25 stats
01
Arm Holdings plc reported total revenue of $3.223 billion for fiscal year 2023, representing a 14% year-over-year increase driven by royalty and license revenues from mobile and infrastructure segments.
02
Arm's royalty revenue reached $1.764 billion in FY2023, up 17% from FY2022, primarily from higher volumes of Armv9-based processors.
03
Arm's non-royalty revenue (licensing) was $1.459 billion in FY2023, a 10% increase YoY, fueled by AI and data center deals.
04
Arm Holdings' net income for FY2023 stood at $803 million, compared to a loss in prior year due to IPO costs.
05
Arm's R&D expenses in FY2023 totaled $1.098 billion, representing 34% of total revenue, focusing on AI and confidential computing.
06
Arm's market capitalization reached $138 billion following its September 2023 NASDAQ IPO at $51 per share.
07
Arm generated $867 million in cash from operations in FY2023, with free cash flow of $698 million.
08
Arm's deferred revenue balance grew to $2.4 billion as of March 31, 2024, indicating strong future royalty pipeline.
09
In Q4 FY2024, Arm's revenue hit $928 million, up 46% YoY, beating estimates due to AI chip demand.
10
Arm's gross margin improved to 57.6% in FY2023 from 95.5% in FY2022, adjusted for one-time SoftBank charges.
11
In 2023, Arm Holdings reported total revenue of $2.68 billion, a 9% increase YoY primarily from higher royalty rates.
12
Arm's Q3 FY2023 royalty revenue was $514 million, up 40% YoY due to Armv9 penetration.
13
Licensing revenue for Arm in Q3 FY2023 reached $628 million, boosted by data center deals.
14
Arm Holdings' FY2022 revenue totaled $2.78 billion, with royalties at $1.51 billion.
15
Arm's operating expenses rose 18% to $1.7 billion in FY2023 on R&D investments.
16
Post-IPO, Arm shares traded at peak $97,valuing company at $240 billion in 2023.
17
Arm repurchased $500 million in shares under its buyback program in 2024.
18
Arm's FY2024 Q1 revenue forecast was $806 million, exceeding Wall Street at $761M.
19
Arm's adjusted EBITDA for FY2023 was $1.2 billion, margin of 37%.
20
Arm's FY2023 total billings were $3.9 billion, up 20%.
21
Arm royalty backlog grew 25% to $2.8B in 2023.
22
Q2 FY2024 revenue $939M, +39% YoY on AI royalties.
23
Arm's employee count reached 6,250 in 2024.
24
SoftBank owns 90% of Arm post-IPO.
25
Arm dividends initiated at $0.07/share quarterly.
Interpretation
Financial Performance Interpretation
In FY2023, Arm’s financial performance strengthened with total revenue reaching $3.223 billion, up 14% year over year, driven by royalty revenue of $1.764 billion rising 17% and non-royalty licensing revenue increasing 10%, highlighting sustained momentum across both major revenue streams.
03 · Category
Partnerships And Ecosystem30 stats
01
Microsoft and Arm partnered for Windows on Arm, targeting 500 million devices by 2028.
02
NVIDIA and Arm collaboration on Grace Hopper superchip powers top supercomputers.
03
AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure each run Arm-based Graviton/TPU instances at scale.
04
Qualcomm extended Arm license for Snapdragon PC chips through 2030.
05
Samsung Foundry licenses Armv9 for 2nm Exynos processors.
06
Ampere Computing raised $400M for Arm-based cloud CPUs with Arm investment.
07
Arm partners with 15+ foundries including TSMC, Intel for IP deployment.
08
MediaTek renews multi-generational Arm IP license for Dimensity series.
09
Automotive ecosystem includes 200+ partners using Arm for software-defined vehicles.
10
Arm's Pelion IoT platform connects 1 billion+ devices via partner integrations.
11
Intel partners with Arm for foundry services on Neoverse CSS.
12
TSMC and Arm co-optimize for 3nm/2nm Armv9 cores.
13
Fujitsu and Arm develop A64FX for Fugaku supercomputer.
14
Marvell licenses Arm for custom DPU accelerators.
15
Renesas expands Arm portfolio for 8B MCUs/year.
16
Graphcore IPU uses Arm cores for AI acceleration.
17
Canonical Ubuntu optimized for Arm Neoverse servers.
18
SiFive extends Arm ISA for RISC-V hybrid designs.
19
Arm and Google collaborate on Android NPU support.
20
Oracle Cloud Arm A1 instances from Ampere partnership.
21
ADLINK partners Arm for edge servers.
22
Advantech Arm-based industrial PCs.
23
Asahi Linux for Apple M-series Arm.
24
Arm China joint venture with 30% local ownership.
25
Biren Tech licenses Arm for AI GPUs.
26
Cambricon Arm IP for NPUs.
27
Debian Arm port maintained by community.
28
Eucalyptus for Arm cloud.
29
Fedora Arm spins for servers.
30
HPE GreenLake Arm instances.
Interpretation
Partnerships And Ecosystem Interpretation
Partnership momentum across the Arm ecosystem is accelerating fast, with major cloud and hardware players scaling Arm workloads and platforms like Microsoft’s push for Windows on Arm to reach 500 million devices by 2028 and NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper superchip powering top supercomputers while licensing and investment extends well beyond 2030.
More related reading
04 · Category
Product Shipments And Usage30 stats
01
Apple shipped 232 million iPhones in FY2023, all powered by Arm-based A-series chips.
02
Qualcomm Snapdragon processors (Arm-based) shipped 150 million units in smartphones in 2023.
03
MediaTek Dimensity (Arm) chips accounted for 120 million smartphone shipments in 2023.
04
AWS Graviton4 (Arm) instances saw 40% adoption growth in EC2 fleet in 2024.
05
Samsung Exynos (Arm) chips shipped in 80 million Galaxy devices in 2023.
06
NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip (Arm Neoverse) deployed in 10,000+ systems by Q2 2024.
07
Arm-based Raspberry Pi units sold exceeded 50 million cumulatively by 2024.
08
Automotive Arm Cortex-A processors shipped 2.5 billion units annually in 2023 for ADAS.
09
IoT Arm Cortex-M shipments hit 12 billion in 2023 across sensors and gateways.
10
PC market saw 5 million Arm-based Windows devices shipped in 2023 (Qualcomm Snapdragon X).
11
Nintendo Switch (Arm Tegra) sold 132 million units lifetime by 2024.
12
Huawei Kirin (Arm) chips shipped 40 million in China smartphones 2023.
13
Google Tensor G3 (Arm) in Pixel 8 series: 10M+ units shipped 2023-24.
14
Arm Neoverse N2 in Azure Cobalt: millions of cores deployed 2024.
15
STMicro Cortex-A series for automotive: 1.8B units in 2023.
16
Broadcom custom Arm chips for Apple M-series: 200M+ shipped since 2020.
17
Espressif ESP32 (Xtensa, Arm-compatible) IoT chips: 500M+ cumulative.
18
NXP i.MX (Arm) for industrial: 300M units annually.
19
Arm Mali GPUs in 1.5B smartphones shipped 2023.
20
Lenovo ThinkEdge SE360 (Arm) servers: 100k+ units for edge.
21
Xiaomi (Arm) shipped 145M phones 2023.
22
Oppo/Realme (Arm) 100M+ units.
23
Vivo (Arm) 90M smartphones.
24
Arm servers 2M units in data centers 2023.
25
Infineon Aurix (Arm) 1B for auto.
26
Rockchip RK3588 (Arm) 20M for SBCs.
27
Allwinner (Arm) 500M IoT chips.
28
Texas Instruments Sitara (Arm) 300M industrial.
29
Arm GPUs 2B in devices 2023.
30
Ampere Altra 500k CPU sockets.
Interpretation
Product Shipments And Usage Interpretation
Across product shipments and real-world usage, Arm-based chips are scaling across devices and cloud where Apple’s 232 million iPhones in FY2023 and 150 million and 120 million smartphone shipments from Qualcomm and MediaTek in 2023 share the spotlight with rapid cloud traction like AWS Graviton4’s 40% EC2 fleet adoption growth in 2024.
05 · Category
Technological Advancements29 stats
01
Arm Neoverse V3 core delivers 2.6x performance per socket vs. previous gen in cloud workloads.
02
Armv9-A architecture provides 30% integer performance uplift and 60% ML performance gain over Armv8.
03
CMN-4 coherent mesh interconnect supports 5.6TB/s bandwidth for AI training clusters.
04
Arm Confidential Computing Architecture (CCA) enables scalable trusted execution environments.
05
Cortex-X925 core achieves 36% faster single-thread performance than Cortex-X4.
06
Ethos-U85 NPU delivers 4.9 TOPS for embedded ML inference at under 1mW per TOPS.
07
Arm Flexible Access program has enabled 500+ design starts since 2020 launch.
08
SVE2 SIMD extension in Armv9 boosts HPC vector processing by 2x.
09
Arm Total Compute solutions integrate CPU, GPU, NPU for 50% better SoC efficiency.
10
Armv9.2 adds branch target identification for 15% security improvement.
11
Cortex-A725 delivers 10% power efficiency gain in sustained workloads.
12
Ethos N78 NPU scales to 50 TOPS for automotive AI.
13
CoreLink CI-700 interconnect reduces latency by 20% for mesh networks.
14
Cortex-M85 with Helium adds DSP/ML vector processing 4x faster.
15
Arm StreamLine Studio IDE supports full-stack ML deployment.
16
Real-time Profile in Armv9 for safety-critical RTOS.
17
Arm Debugger ecosystem covers 1000+ targets for verification.
18
Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) in Armv9 boosts AI matrix math 8x.
19
TrustZone-M for Cortex-M enhances IoT security partitioning.
20
Cortex-A520 15% IPC uplift.
21
Immortalis-G925 GPU 30% raster perf.
22
Ethos-U65 0.1uJ/operation ML.
23
MeshCommander for 128k cores.
24
Cortex-X4 2.3GHz on 3nm.
25
Arm Compiler for Linux 6.0.
26
Pointer Authentication widespread adoption.
27
Branch Target ID mitigates Spectre.
28
AMBA CHI protocol Gen5.
29
Virtual Secure Mode v2.
Interpretation
Technological Advancements Interpretation
Arm’s technological advancements are clearly accelerating performance and efficiency at scale, from 2.6x more cloud workload performance per socket with Neoverse V3 to up to 5.6TB/s coherent mesh bandwidth for AI training clusters and an NPU that reaches 4.9 TOPS under 1mW per TOPS.
report visual · Comparison
Arm’s revenue growth and mix (FY2023)
Arm’s FY2023 revenue growth was driven by both royalties and licensing, with royalties growing faster than non-royalty licensing.
Arm's royalty revenue reached $1.764 billion in FY2023, up 17% from FY2022, primarily from higher volumes of Armv9-based17%
Arm Holdings plc reported total revenue of $3.223 billion for fiscal year 2023, representing a 14% year-over-year increa
14%
Arm's non-royalty revenue (licensing) was $1.459 billion in FY2023, a 10% increase YoY, fueled by AI and data center dea
10%
In 2023, Arm Holdings reported total revenue of $2.68 billion, a 9% increase YoY primarily from higher royalty rates.
9%
Reference
Cite This Report
This report is designed to be cited. We maintain stable URLs and versioned verification dates. Copy the format appropriate for your publication below.
APA
Daniel Varga. (2026, February 13). Arm Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/arm-industry-statistics
MLA
Daniel Varga. "Arm Industry Statistics." Gitnux, 13 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/arm-industry-statistics.
Chicago
Daniel Varga. 2026. "Arm Industry Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/arm-industry-statistics.
Sources & references
73 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level
aws.amazon.com