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Softbank — Arm Holdings — Q4 FY2024 Earnings Presentation
9 slides from Softbank's earnings presentation, May 2024
Slide 1: Arm Holdings plc SoftBank Investor Briefing
Arm Holdings plc SoftBank Investor Briefing Jason Child, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer AI-generated image May 2024 © 2024 Arm
Slide 2: Nomenclature difference between Arm and SoftBank Group
Nomenclature difference between Arm and SoftBank Group Fiscal year ending March 31, 2024 Fiscal year ending March 31, 2024 FY2023 FYE24 2 © 2024 Arm
Slide 3: Q4 FYE24: From Revenues to Profits to Cash
Q4 FYE24: From Revenues to Profits to Cash 97% 42% 69% Non-GAAP Non-GAAP Revenue Gross Margin Operating to Cash $928m $26m $902m $511m Margin Conversion License Revenue $637m $391m Royalty Revenue Revenue Non-GAAP Non-GAAP Non-GAAP Non-GAAP Non-GAAP Cost of Sales Gross Profit Operating Expenses Oper
Slide 4: Semiconductor industry recovered after inventory correction
Semiconductor industry recovered after inventory correction Semiconductor industry has recovered from the 2022 inventory correction, now seeing normal seasonality Industry demand driven by AI and consumer. Automotive and industrial electronics seeing some weakness. Q4 smartphone sales up 7.8% year o
Slide 5: All major hyperscalers and NVIDIA have built Arm-based chips
All major hyperscalers and NVIDIA have built Arm-based chips Alibaba Yitian 710 Amazon Graviton4 Google Axion 128 Neoverse-N2 cores 96 Neoverse-V2 cores Neoverse-V2 cores Armv9 based Armv9 based Armv9 based Microsoft Cobalt 100 Ampere Altra One NVIDIA Grace Blackwell 128 Neoverse-N2 cores 192 Neover
Slide 6: All major hyperscalers and NVIDIA have built Arm-based chips
All major hyperscalers and NVIDIA have built Arm-based chips Alibaba Yitian 710 Amazon Graviton4 Google Axion 50%less energy 60% less energy 60%less energy Microsoft Cobalt 100 Ampere Altra One NVIDIA Grace Blackwell 40% more performance 60% less energy 95%less energy 6 © 2024 Arm
Slide 7: Energy efficiency is a requirement if AI is to become reality
Energy efficiency is a requirement if AI is to become reality Using Arm CPUs could save >15% 126TWh 3x increase in energy used by data centers is forecasted due to AI Today 2030 7 © 2024 Arm Sources: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Slide 8: Guidance
Guidance Arm has good visibility of its licensing pipeline although timing, deal size, etc. can change Royalty revenue can be influenced by industry wide trends, inventory corrections, changes in market share, changes in chip ASPs, and changes to Arm’s royalty rate. Q1 FYE 25 FYE 25 Revenue $875m -
Slide 9: To be replaced
To be replaced 9 © 2024 Arm