CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Microprocessor company Arm unveiled its newest offering, the Cortex-A8 processor, which the company said will give low-power mobile devices the computing strength of desktop computers.
“The rapid convergence of digital entertainment and mobile communications technology requires new levels of system performance and security within a tight cost and power footprint,” said Mike Inglis, Arm’s executive vice president of marketing. “The new Arm Cortex-A8 processor and supporting technologies bring unprecedented levels of performance and energy efficiency to the home and mobile markets and will result in innovative new devices with media-rich applications coming to the consumer.”
Already Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Texas Instruments Inc. have licensed the product for use in their chips. TI specifically said it would use the Cortex-A8 processor in its line of chips for third-generation mobile phones.
Arm technology forms the basis for many of the world’s high-end phones.
