February 11, 2021 — Arm reported today that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped a record 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, which equates to ~842 chips shipped per second. To date, Arm partners have shipped more than 180 billion Arm-based chips.
Arm said it continues to be the leading architecture for IoT and embedded devices with a record 4.4 billion chips based on Arm Cortex-M reported as shipped in the quarter, and also said the Arm Mali graphics processors remain the number one shipping GPU.
Rene Haas, president, IP Products Group, said its ecosystem continues to grow, with Arm partners signing a record 175 new licenses in calendar year 2020, bringing the annual total to 1,910 licenses and 530 licensees.
He said the Arm ecosystem continues to be at the center of IoT with as many of the record 4.4 billion Cortex-M processors reported as shipped last quarter enable billions of IoT devices.
