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In this Bloomberg Technology interview, ARM CEO Renee Haas lays out the company’s latest financial results and the infrastructure story driving them. ARM’s most recent quarter hit approximately $1.5 billion in revenue — a number Haas notes was once an annual figure for the company — with the data center business doubling year over year. The smartphone segment showed weakness, though Haas notes ARM’s exposure is concentrated in premium tiers where royalty rates remain strong under ARM v9 architecture.
The central narrative is the ARM AGI CPU and its timing relative to the agentic workload boom. Haas explains that agentic AI workloads — where agents issue rapid queries requiring fast responses, plus orchestration, scheduling, and memory management — are CPU-bound tasks that GPUs cannot handle. That dynamic is driving explosive demand for ARM’s new chip. The order pipeline, initially forecast at $1 billion, doubled to $2 billion over just five weeks. Named launch partners include Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, SK Telecom, Rebellions, SAP, and F5 Networks, with system integrators Super Micro, Lenovo, and ASRock building the rack infrastructure. A key performance claim: the ARM AGI CPU delivers twice the performance of a comparable x86 rack within the same 36-kilowatt air-cooled envelope.
Haas frames supply — not demand — as the current constraint, with TSMC, SK Hynix, Micron, and Samsung all involved in the supply chain conversation. ARM’s $15 billion revenue target for fiscal year 2031 (calendar 2030) is reaffirmed as on-track.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published May 07, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
