Quote Originally Posted by nn_step View Post
ARM Holdings:

Revenue £305.0 million (2009)
Operating income £45.6 million (2009)
Net income £40.4 million (2009)
Total equity US$850 million (2010)
Employees 1,700 (2010)


Intel:

Revenue US$ 35.127 billion (2009)
Operating income US$ 5.711 billion (2009)
Net income US$ 4.369 billion (2009)
Total assets US$ 53.095 billion (2009)
Total equity US$ 41.704 billion (2009)
Employees 83,500 (2008)


Intel could buy ARM for only a fraction of its profit generated last year.

Think of it this way.

AMD is about 10 times larger and Intel surely keeps AMD on its toes.

AMD:

Revenue US$5.4 billion (FY 2009)
Operating income US$664 million (FY 2009)
Net income US$293 million (FY 2009)
Total assets US$9.08 billion (FY 2009)
Total equity US$648 million (FY 2009)
Employees 10,400 – Jan 2010
Arm isn't big itself but a lot of of their partners,licencee's are. Texas instruments and Qualcomm are just two of ARM's many partners and use their chips exclusively and their combined value is about the same as Intel's. Considering samsung designs(not simply buys) ARM chips, Apple too. The amount of research arms partners do is likely pretty staggering.

In 2007, 3 billion processors ARM based processors were used, a number that is likely even bigger today.