Who are ARM Licensees?
ARM Licensees are companies with licenses from ARM to manufacture and integrate into their own System on chip (SoC) with other components.
ARM licenses IP to over 1,000 global partners (including Samsung, Apple, and Microsoft and other big names).
How many ARM licensees are there?
In 2021, there were 160 licensees. That's 15 less licensees than in 2020!
Year | Number of licensees |
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2021 | 160 licensees |
2020 | 175 licensees |
2019 | 147 licensees |
2018 | 125 licensees |
2017 | 141 licensees |
2016 | 113 licensees |
2015 | 182 licensees |
We currently don't know any 100% confirmed information about ARM's licensees in 2022 or 2023, but as soon as data comes out, we'll publish it here.
How many ARM-based chips were shipped?
In 2021, Arm reported shipped 29 billion Arm-based chips.
Year | Number of ARM chip shipments |
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2021 | 29.2 billion ARM chip shipments |
2020 | 25 billion ARM chip shipments |
2019 | 22.8 billion ARM chip shipments |
2018 | 22.7 billion ARM chip shipments |
2017 | 21.3 billion ARM chip shipments |
2016 (Q4) | 5.1 billion ARM chip shipments |
How many chips ARM licensees shipments are there?
In December 2021, Arm’s licensees reported shipments of 7.8 billion ARM-based chips.
Below you can see a list of processors that were shipped worldwide throughout the 2015-2021 interval.
Breakdown by processor (million) | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Classic (Arm7, Arm9, Arm11) | 517 | 500 | 499 | 499 | - | - | - |
Cortex-A | 265 | 290 | 334 | 363 | - | - | - |
Cortex-R | 65 | 78 | 94 | 106 | - | - | - |
Cortex-M | 363 | 425 | 482 | 539 | 4,200 | 4,400 | - |
Mali | 138 | 149 | 168 | 187 | - | - | - |
Total (x 1,000,000) | 1,348 | 1,442 | 1,577 | 1,674 | 6,400 | 6,700 | 7,800 |
Renesas will be in the above category of 4.4B (2021) Cortex-M chips shipped per year. If Cortex-M numbers rise 400M YOY similar to 2019 to 2020 then there will be 5.6B in 2023 & 6B in 2024 shipped by licensees.
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