Rod Kumbs (Rob Coombs), head of mobile solutions to the British company ARM, announced that the planned use of processor-based applications development Cortex-A8 and Cortex -A9, not only for smartphones, where the ARM architecture occupies a dominant position, but also in small subnoutbukah. Kumbs said that he expects the relevant announcements in the next few months, while the devices will be used processors from several Cortex-A8, operating at a frequency of around 1 GHz. The emergence of development based on the Cortex-A9, multiyadernogo brother Cortex-A8, is projected for 2010
Kumbs refused to announce who is a producer prepares announce ARM-netbukov, instead calling the company licensed Cortex-A8. These included Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments (TI), Broadcom, PMC-Sierra, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Freescale. In the case of Cortex-A9 similar list currently looks like this:NEC, Nvidia, STMicroelectronics, TI and Toshiba. By the way, NVIDIA has announced its intention to use the ARM11 processor-based mobile Internet device, the size of the average holding position between Smartphone and laptop.
Exit ARM territory netbukov means the beginning of fierce competition with Intel, the dominant chip in here with Atom. Well, that while Intel itself has a license from ARM. True, Intel also focus on neighboring territories:According to executive director Paul Otellini (Paul Otellini), the next generation of Atom will be used in the smartphone, and it happens at the end of 2009
Although Microsoft does not produce ARM-compatible versions of desktop operating systems Windows, this architecture is supported by Windows CE and several distributions of Linux, there is also a version of Apple OS X. In turn, the rumored Apple also has licensed ARM, and, moreover, it acquired the company PA Semi has considerable experience in using this architecture.
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