Apple’s clear interest in securing the rights to develop custom mobile processors based on the ARM platform appear to sync with comments made in financial reports published earlier today.

ARM Holdings plc, the group responsible for licensing ARM mobile microprocessor designs to hundreds of chip designers and manufacturers, disclosed in its Second Quarter earnings a deal with “a leading handset manufacturer,” which many observers believe to be Apple.

The report noted that “Q2 also included four significant licenses with major OEMs,” including “a leading handset OEM who bought a long-term architecture license to ARM’s current and future technology for use in mobile computing.” The report also included and aerospace OEM, a “leading consumer electronics OEM,” and networking giant Cisco.

Continues: ARM reports finger Apple as ‘long term architecture licensee’

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