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Arm’s AI boom is showing up as licensing and royalty growth primarily because Arm's business model is centered around licensing its CPU architecture and collecting royalties from its extensive ecosystem rather than directly selling chips. Arm licenses its designs to tech companies, which then incorporate them into their own chips, generating ongoing royalty revenue per chip produced. This model allows Arm to scale its revenue with the broader chip ecosystem without tying it to a single product cycle [3]. Additionally, Arm's architecture, especially the new Armv9 and Neoverse designs, is becoming increasingly popular for AI workloads, driving higher royalty rates per chip due to the new technologies and features they enable, such as enhanced performance per watt [1], [2].