Sales and Market Share
In 2010, over 6.1 billion ARM-based chips were sold, with a 55% unit increase from 2009. Here are ARM-based products' market share in different market segments in 2010: over 95% in smartphone market; 10% in mobile computers; 35% in digital TVs and set-top boxes; however, ARM did not have any market share in servers and desktop PCs.
With Microsoft's new ARM-based Windows 8 OS coming in 2012, market research firm IHS predicted that in 2015 23% of all the PCs in the world will use ARM processors.
In 2011, ARM's total revenue was $192 million in the third quarter, an increase of 22% compared to the same quarter of 2010, due to 28 new chip licensing revenue. ARM extends to server markets. HP will start producing servers using ARM-based chips in 2012. Also, Calxeda introduced the first ARM-based server chip in November 2011.
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