ARM Launches Cortex-R Processors
ARM announced its R5 and R7 MPCore processors.
The chips are design
ed to extend the architecture's footprint in mobile baseband environments (3G and 4G), mass storage applications as well as industrial and automotive markets - or the same market that Intel is targeting with its extended Atom processor strategy. According to ARM both the R5 and the R7 can be manufactured in single- and dual-core flavors.
The R5 is a successor to the previous R4 model with greater performance, while the R7 is pitched as a new model that "greatly extends the performance levels of the R-series beyond existing capabilities." ARM said that the new R-series is designed for low-power 28 nm semiconductor processes.
“The simultaneous launch of the Cortex-R5 MPCore and Cortex-R7 MPCore processors clearly delineates our leadership position as the architecture of choice for current and future mobile baseband and advanced storage applications, as well as building on our unparalleled position in the wider embedded market,” said Eric Schorn, ARM VP of processor marketing in a prepared statement. “These two advanced processors bring together more than 20 years of ARM expertise in low-power design with a host of new high-performance and real-time technologies which enables our Partners to future-proof their designs based on a single consistent architecture.”
The bottom line? ARM has a huge advantage in the markets Intel wants to conquer with its x86 chips.
The bottom line? ARM has a huge advantage in the markets Intel wants to conquer with its x86 chips.
In light of this whole Intel chipset debacle I'm not sure a lot of people want to see Intel Inside on their cell phone. lol
Something lightweight like ARM, but can run a full OS - RISC? There is the Itanium IA-64, but I never seeing that going into phones.
As much as I like Intel, I don't see milliwatt Atoms working well in phones.
It's a processor...for your ARM! O_O
Really ??? Wow well that's clear as water !
Lol ARM is short for ARM Holdings, Inc. I don't know to much about them though. Google or Yahoo Finance will have a good description of them.
They use the name ARMH in the stock market. They're just ARM. I have a several hundred shares in ARM, tomorrow they report earnings, hopefully I get some bank from this investment
ARM has promise in the mobile to light processing range of computing. Possibly research being performed for supercomputing.
Intel:"Can't let you do that ARM!"
RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer (and i didn't google that either!)
RISC allows Processors to run quickly as the instruction set to compile is very small compared to x86