ARM Eyes Data Center, New Markets with Cortex-A15 Chip Design

eweek.com (Sep 9 2010) Cloud Computing

1. ARM officials unveil the Cortex-A15 design, which will have features, including virtualization support, that will help it expand beyond smartphones and possibly into servers. ARM Holdings, whose chip designs already are found in most of the current smartphones, including Apple's iPhone and devices based on Google's Android OS, is now looking to expand its reach into other areas. ARM officials Sept. 9 unveiled their next major chip design, the Cortex-A15, which had been code-named "Eagle." The officials are promising a fivefold improvement in performance in a power envelope similar to current ARM processors. Chips using the design will be able to run at up to 2.5GHz and with two to possibly 16 processing cores. (Read Full Article)

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