WILMINGTON, Del., March 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), a mobile, video, and AI technology research and development company, today announced that that it has signed a new multi-year, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty bearing license agreement with a major Chinese smartphone vendor and has raised its outlook for first quarter 2025. "We continue to execute according to our growth strategy and added a major Chinese smartphone vendor as a new customer. We now have seven of the ten largest smartphone vendors and almost 80% of the entire global smartphone market under license," commented CEO Liren Chen. "As a result, we have increased our outlook for the first quarter. Our revised first quarter outlook includes an increase of annualized recurring revenue (ARR) 1 by $40 million to approximately $500 million. This new agreement is a further demonstration of the value of our technology and the increasing momentum of our business."