Arm CEO Attributes Missed Earnings to Manufacturing Bottlenecks Despite Strong Demand
Rene Haas, Arm's CEO, stated that demand for chips is extremely high but constrained by manufacturing bottlenecks across multiple stages of the supply chain. He emphasized that order books are full and growing, with near-term revenue growth limited only by production capacity rather than a slowdown in demand. Haas highlighted strong performance across edge computing, automotive, robotics, and data centers, noting record strength in all these areas. Data-center royalty revenue more than doubled year-over-year last quarter, driven partly by the rapid deployment of Neoverse cores. Despite this, Arm's stock has faced a pullback due to broader concerns about AI chip demand. The company is working with partners to expand manufacturing capacity for its AGI CPU and remains confident in achieving a $2 billion target despite initial gross margins being lower than expected.
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