Arm Q1 FY2027 Financial Results:
Revenue of $1.29 billion, up 22% year-over-year; adjusted EPS of $0.45, up 29% year-over-year.
Royalty revenue grew by 22% to $715 million, with data center royalties more than doubling year-over-year. License revenue reached $574 million, an increase of 23% year-over-year.
Rene Haas, CEO of Arm:
“Arm delivered record first-quarter results, with data center royalties more than doubling year-over-year as the migration of AI infrastructure to Arm continues to accelerate. Demand for Arm’s AGI CPUs continues to exceed our initial expectations, and our ongoing efforts with partners to expand manufacturing capacity give us increasing confidence in our ability to meet customer demand at scale.”
Business Highlights:
AGI CPU: Original target of $1 billion (FY27–28); current customer demand exceeds $2 billion. Initial chips have been delivered and production is being ramped up, though guidance has not yet been revised upward.
Neoverse: Data center royalties doubled year-over-year; cumulative shipments reached 1.5 billion cores, with growth accelerating significantly.
Industry trend: NVIDIA, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and Qualcomm have all adopted Arm-based AI server CPUs; according to IDC, Arm-based accelerated servers now account for a greater share of deployments than x86.
Use cases are expanding beyond the cloud: AI PCs, on-device agents, and humanoid robots / physical AI all rely on Arm as their CPU foundation.
Core strategy: IP, CSS, and in-house chip offerings share a unified software ecosystem to capture the convergence-driven compute advantages of the AI era.
Q2 Guidance:
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