Portfolio and single-design license structures create committed fees, but ACV, remaining performance obligations, and recognized license revenue answer different questions about the same contract base. Future usage royalties sit outside both ACV and Arm's disclosed RPO.
Listing facts
- SEC issuer name
- ARM HOLDINGS PLC /UK
- Ticker
- ARM
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Instrument family
- Not yet reviewed
- SEC issuer CIK
- 0001973239
- Listing source refreshed
- 2026-09-13
Company Research Map
These reviewed encyclopedia concepts are supported by public-company evidence for this business. Operating-model groups show how the reported concepts fit together without implying that every metric in the broader model is reported by this issuer.
Research coverage
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Semiconductor IP Licensing Economics
10 reviewed conceptsConnect committed license economics and revenue recognition with customer design wins, the lag to production, and shipment-driven royalty value capture and estimation.
- Annualized Contract Value
- Design Win
- License and Other Revenue
- License-to-Royalty Lag
- Per-Chip Royalty
- Portfolio License Model
- Remaining Performance Obligations
- Royalty Accrual
- Royalty Rate Mix
- Royalty Revenue
How these metrics connect
These bridges come from the reviewed operating model. Linked concepts have public-company evidence for this issuer; broader bridge coverage remains explicit when the model contains additional concepts.
Design selection and time to production
2 of 2 reviewed conceptsA design win marks customer selection of IP, which may occur under an existing portfolio license. The chip still has to move through tape-out, manufacturing and product ramp before the upstream licensing relationship becomes a downstream royalty stream.
Shipment-driven royalty realization
4 of 4 reviewed conceptsRoyalty revenue combines shipped units with contract-specific per-chip economics and technology mix. Because customer shipment reports can lag the accounting close, issuers may accrue estimates and true them up later rather than waiting to recognize the economic shipment period.
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