ARM Holdings PLC, the UK designer of chips used in most Android-based tablet devices, yesterday said shipments of ARM-based chips would accumulate to 100 billion units by 2020, as it is expanding faster to new businesses such as Internet-enabled televisions.
“ARM is growing into new markets and product categories with stronger growth momentum. Mobile phone chips will still be our core business, but the growth rate will be stable,” said Philip Lu (呂鴻祥), president of ARM’s Taiwan branch, during a media briefing.
“And we believe microcontrollers and chips used in home appliances will be the area with potential growth,” Lu said.
Growth in shipments of ARM’s digital TVs and set-top expanded 60 percent last year from a year ago, Lu said.
Last year, overall shipments of ARM-based chips spiked 55 percent to 6.1 billion units, which helped drive up revenues 46 -percent, he said. Mobile phone chip sales made up the biggest portion of ARM’s revenues.
Tom Wang (王建元), a marketing manager at ARM’s home product division in Taipei, said the world’s top five TV manufacturers, including Samsung Electronics, have engaged with ARM, which would help his company boost its market share in the digital TV market to 56 percent in 2013, from 32 percent last year.
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