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Arm's quarter shows how it's carving a lucrative path in the crowded CPU resurgence

Cnbc · · 1597 words · By Jeff Marks
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“Revenue for the company's fiscal 2026 fourth quarter ended March 31 increased 20% year-over-year to $1.49 billion”
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Multiple independent sources (Bloomberg, ZeroHedge) confirm that revenue increased 20% to $1.49 billion for the quarter ended March.
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web search NEUTRAL — In the fiscal fourth quarter, revenue increased 20% to $1.49 billion. Profit was 60 cents a share in the period, which ran through March. Those figures both beat analysts’ estimates.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-06/arm-sales…
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web search NEUTRAL — Arm Holdings expects a slight decline in royalty revenues for the March quarter due to smartphone seasonality and a potential pullback in IoT revenues, offset by record licensing revenue supported by …
https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/25/02…
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web search NEUTRAL — Revenue rose 20% year over year to $1.49 billion, slightly ahead of estimates, while adjusted EPS of 60 cents beat the 58-cent estimate.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-sell-rated-arm-sma…
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“LSEG-compiled analysts' consensus estimate of $1.47 billion”
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Three independent sources (CNBC, MarketBeat, and another news report) explicitly state the LSEG-compiled consensus estimate was $1.47 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — Revenue for the company's fiscal 2026 fourth quarter ended March 31 increased 20% year-over-year to $1.49 billion, ahead of the LSEG-compiled analysts' consensus estimate of $1.47 billion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/arms-quarter-shows-how-its-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — ARM issued Q4 2026 earnings on May 6, 2026, reporting an EPS of $0.60, which beat the consensus estimate of $0.58 by $0.02. Quarterly revenue rose 20.1% year-over-year to $1.49 billion, above analyst …
https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/ARM/earnings/
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web search NEUTRAL — Arm exceeded Q4 forecasts with earnings per share of $0.60 versus the $0.58 consensus, while revenue hit $1.49B against $1.47B estimates Shares surged 12-13% in extended trading before reversing cours…
https://blockonomi.com/arm-holdings-arm-stock-slides-despite…
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“Non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) increased 9% to 60 cents, beating the 58 cents expected”
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Multiple sources (ZeroHedge, MarketBeat, and another news report) confirm the non-GAAP EPS was 60 cents, beating the 58-cent estimate. While the 9% increase is not explicitly calculated in all snippets, the figures 60c vs 58c are consistently reported.
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web search NEUTRAL — "We're seeing the acceleration of Arm being a significant player in the data center," Haas said in an interview, quoted by Bloomberg. As for the rest of fourth-quarter earnings, Arm beat on total reve…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-sell-rated-arm-sma…
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web search NEUTRAL — On a non‑GAAP basis (excluding the litigation expense) diluted earnings per share were $1.64. Financial Highlights. Net revenue: $433.9 million for the quarter (reported net revenue).
https://www.tradingview.com/news/tradingview:0329eb0826320:0…
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web search NEUTRAL — GAAP net earnings was $1.9 billion, compared to net loss of $1.8 billion in the prior year period. Adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) was 99 cents, representing a 2% decline from the prior year…
https://investorplace.com/2021/03/7-value-stocks-ready-for-t…
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“The stock closed at a record high of $237”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about Arm and a generic stock quote page; none of the sources confirm the specific closing price of $237 or that it was a record high.
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web search NEUTRAL — Arm (stylised in lowercase as arm) [a] is a family of RISC instruction set architectures for computer processors. Arm Holdings develops the instruction set architecture and licenses them to other comp…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family
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web search NEUTRAL — "ARM" was originally an acronym for Acorn RISC Machine and later for Advanced RISC Machines. While ARM CPUs first appeared in the Acorn Archimedes, a desktop computer, today's systems include mostly e…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest Arm Holdings plc (ARM) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ARM/?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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“Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan said on the April 23 earnings call that the CPU-to-GPU ratio in AI racks used to be 1-to-8. But with the rise of agentics, it's more like 1-to-4”
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While web results discuss the shift in CPU-to-GPU ratios (1:8 to 1:4) and the impact of agentic AI, none of the provided evidence attributes this specific quote to 'Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan' on an 'April 23 earnings call'. Lip Bu Tan is not the CEO of Intel.
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web search NEUTRAL — The shift from chatbot to agent is not incremental — it is multiplicative.3. CPU workloads are returning. Agentic AI executes code, runs sandboxes, manages RL environments. The CPU:GPU ratio is shifti…
https://dev.to/s3atoshi_leading_ai/the-inference-inflection-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The CPU-to-GPU ratio in AI data centers is expected to shift dramatically from 1:4-1:8 to 1:1-1:2, leading to a multi-fold increase in CPU demand.
https://freshfromchina.com/ai-agents-drive-cpu-demand-surge-…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to her, the ratio of CPUs to GPUs is important in this scenario. "So if you're installing a gigawatt of compute, you know, the ratio, there's a percentage of CPU as part of that gigawatt wil…
https://wccftech.com/amds-lisa-su-pushes-back-on-gpu-canniba…
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“AMD CEO Lisa Su said she now expects the CPU server total addressable market to grow at a greater than 35% clip annually, reaching over $120 billion by 2030”
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Multiple independent sources (AMD-focused news reports and Otet Markets Blog) confirm Lisa Su's projection of 35% annual growth reaching over $120 billion by 2030.
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web search NEUTRAL — AMD previously estimated the server CPU market would reach roughly $60 billion by 2030. That figure has now doubled as enterprises and hyperscale cloud providers ramp AI deployments that require more …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/amd-ceo-lisa-su-predict…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lisa Su said AMD now expects the server CPU total addressable market to grow more than 35% annually, reaching over $120 billion by 2030. That was a substantial increase from prior expectations and ref…
https://www.ainvest.com/news/amd-ai-momentum-fuels-breakout-…
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web search NEUTRAL — AMD outlined a notably stronger outlook for the CPU total addressable market, forecasting 35% annual growth to just over $120 billion by 2030. This compares with the company’s prior forecast of 18% gr…
https://otetmarkets.com/blog/news/general-economic-news/amd-…
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“Arm-based CPUs represent more than 50% share among top hyperscalers”
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Three independent sources (including Sherwood News and others) confirm Arm's claim that it has around or more than 50% market share among top hyperscalers.
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web search NEUTRAL — “The direction is clear: customers want Arm at the center of the AI data center.” Overall, Arm said its market share of CPU compute represents around a 50 percent share among top hyperscalers, with Go…
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/arm-posts-recordi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Arm-based CPUs represent more than 50% share among top hyperscalers. AMD and Intel may claim they have the market share edge, but Arm pointed out on the call that the three largest AI accelerator prov…
https://livdose.com/arms-quarter-shows-how-its-carving-a-luc…
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web search NEUTRAL — The company said it already has 50% market share for CPU compute among top hyperscalers. “Soon the data center will be Arm’s largest business,” the company said. But executives said the company hasn’t…
https://sherwood.news/markets/arm-holdings-q4-earnings-repor…
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“Nvidia 's Rubin GPUs are integrated with Vera (Arm-based) CPUs”
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The provided evidence for Nvidia consists of a Wikipedia entry about a partnership with OpenAI and general official site descriptions. There is no mention of 'Rubin GPUs' or 'Vera CPUs'.
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web search NEUTRAL — On September 22, 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI announced a memorandum of understanding for a partnership wherein Nvidia would invest $100 billion into OpenAI, and OpenAI would use Nvidia chips and systems i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html
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web search NEUTRAL — From the cloud to the office to the data center to the edge, NVIDIA provides solutions that deliver breakthrough performance on enterprise AI and HPC workloads at any scale, driving business decisions…
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/
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“Google has its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) with its Axion (Arm-based) CPUs”
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“Amazon has Trainium with the Graviton (Arm-based) chips”
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“TPUs from Alphabet 's Google are co-designed by fellow Club name Broadcom”
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“In March 2026, Arm unveiled the next chapter in its story: the company's first in-house data center CPU”
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“the company said it had a line of sight to more than $1 billion of demand over the next two years... They now see over $2 billion of customer demand across fiscal year-end 2027 and 2028”
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“It believes hyperscalers could potentially reduce AI data center capital expenditures (capex) by up to $10 billion per gigawatt”
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“License and Other revenue grew about 29% year over year to $819 million”
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“Royalty revenue increased 11% year over year to $671 million”
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“They were 98.32% on a non-GAAP basis in the quarter”
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“For the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, the company expects revenue of $1.26 billion plus or minus $50 million”
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“The company expects non-GAAP operating expenses of $760 million”
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“Non-GAAP earnings per share are expected to be 40 cents, plus or minus 4 cents”
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