Financial highlights
- Group revenues up 13% to £170.8m (2013: £151.5m)
- Good performance in Technology Business with revenues increased 17% to £147.5m (2013: £125.7m)
- Licensing revenues up 32% to £38.3m (2013: £29.1m)
- Royalty revenues up 15% to £109.0m (2013: £95.1m)
- Pure revenues of £23.2m (2013: £25.8m)
- Adjusted operating profit* of £24.1m (2013: £33.5m)
- Reported operating profit of £0.02m (2013: profit £11.3m)
- Adjusted earnings per share* 8.1p (2013: 9.4p)
- Reported earnings per share 0.3p (2013: 2.4p)
- Cash generated from operations before working capital of £28.3m (2013: £34.0m)
- Net debt of £5.0m (30 April 2013: Excluding MIPS tax liabilities £10.7m)
- Cash of £19.2m. Bank facilities renewed to 2018
*
Adjusted profit excludes non-recurring items, items relating to
acquisitions and investments, non-cash based share incentive charges
and amortization of intangible assets acquired from acquisitions. The
reconciliation from reported results to adjusted results is set out in
note 2.
Business highlights
Technology business
Licensing & design wins
- Strong and growing licensing activities across all IP families involving many existing and new customers
- 115 licenses including 51 for PowerVR (37 GPU, 11 video and 3 camera vision IP), 48 for MIPS CPU, 11 for Ensigma RPU (3x last year), two for Ensigma VoIP and three for FlowCloud
- Accelerating growth in customer base with new licences involving over 50 partners:
- Existing customers included:- Actions, Allwinner, CSR, Freescale, HiSilicon, Intel, LG, MediaTek, Microchip, Mobileye, Realtek, Renesas, ST and others
- New customers included Atomos, Avago, Ineda, I&C Micro Systems, Lenovo, Toshiba and others
- Increasing number of customers signing licenses for IP from multiple families
- Licensing activity has resulted in around 60 new SoC design-wins which will contribute to future royalties
- Continued active and growing pipeline of prospects across all IP families
Partner chip shipments & royalties
- Total partner chip shipments of 1,259m
- Significant volume shipments in: all mobile segments (performance, mainstream and entry smartphones); tablet/personal computing; networking & enterprise; industrial; TV/STB & automotive
- Smartphone market continued to grow albeit with lower growth rates
- Average royalty rate maintained at prior year’s level due to the mix
- PowerVR Series6 graphics shipping in volume across all key segments including mobile, TV and automotive
- Growing MIPS volume in developing 32-bit microcontroller and Internet of Things (IoT) markets, with MIPS 64-bit architecture well established in multiple markets
- Strong PowerVR video processing IP unit shipments
Pure business
- Continues to drive key markets
- Launch of Jongo wireless speaker products in key UK and US markets
- Continued refresh of DAB product line-up
- Strategic interest from key players in our wireless and multi-room speaker technologies resulted in a number of licenses signed
- Organisational changes to reduce costs and better align with our IP business
Hossein Yassaie, Chief Executive, commented:
“The
significant growth in the licensing deal closure and the growing
customer base confirm the strong alignment of our technologies to the
existing and emerging markets as well as our partners’ needs.
“The
strong and growing demand across all IP areas, including PowerVR
graphics & video, MIPS processors and Ensigma communications coupled
with growing trends of customers opting for multiple IP families or IP
platforms, validate the strength of our strategy and the relevance of
our roadmaps.
“All
the indications from existing and new customers are that the
alternative that MIPS processors offer is credible, respected and
welcome, both for the technological benefits and the much needed
industry balance they can help to bring about. The active licensing
trends and the strong support from the industry leaders for the
recently launched prpl foundation, focused on MIPS ecosystem, are clear
indications of our real and continued progress.
“As
the licensing deal closures show, the demand for Ensigma
communications technology is accelerating. This is driven by the
emerging trends in the Internet of Things and home connectivity.
“Whilst
there will continue to be fluctuations and changes in the markets in
which we operate, we are confident that our comprehensive and
complementary IP families, and the solution-centric IP platforms they
are enabling, will allow us to take advantage of the numerous growth
opportunities ahead.”
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