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ARM To Unveil 64-bit Jaguar Chip For Handhelds
News UK chip designer ARM will unveil its 64-bit processor design for handheld computers on Wednesday at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California. This is where we take an ARM processor, combine it with peripherals and software support, and give...
[October 16, 2001, 11:42]
ARM Pushes 3D For Mobile Phones
News ARM's processor components, or cores, are used in about three-quarters of the world's mobile phones, and power Pocket PC and next-generation Palm handheld computers. This core was recently licensed by chip giant Intel, which separately licenses ARM...
[August 7, 2002, 15:48]
ARM Launches Low-power Multimedia Chip
News UK chipmaker ARM launched the Cortex A8 processor on Tuesday, claiming that its high performance and low power requirements would "revolutionise consumer and low-power mobile devices". The A8 is the first applications processor based on the ARMv7...
[October 5, 2005, 16:55]
Asynchronous ARM Watches Power
News UK chip designers ARM and Philips offshoot Handshake Solutions have announced a clockless ARM processor core. Applying Handshake Technology to the industry-leading ARM architecture will result in a new type of ultra low-power processor, enabling...
[November 2, 2004, 16:24]
Texas Instruments Eyes Up ARM 10
News ARM, sometimes described as the 'chipless chip company', licences processor designs to semiconductor partners but does not actually make products itself.percent of its revenue comes from OEM partners who make systems for powering mobile phone to...
[July 7, 1999, 14:51]
ARM Offers Low-power Mobile Chips
News UK chip designer ARM on Tuesday introduced a new processor core for high-end embedded devices, as well as a less power-hungry version of a core already used in devices like mobile phones. ARM's ARM1026EJ-S processor core is based on the ARM10...
[May 1, 2002, 15:55]
Embedded Chips Chase Gadget Market
News Meanwhile, ST Microelectronics said it has extended its ARM licence to include the ARM7, ARM9 and ARM10 processor cores. Several chipmakers announced new system-on-a-chip processors based on ARM processor cores.
[April 11, 2001, 10:44]
Startup Aims To Inject Zing Into Net Telephony
News A startup run by a former senior executive of chip designer ARM is launching Monday a new high-capacity processor for Internet telephony equipment and handheld devices. With Schlachte, a former vice president of ARM, at the helm, BOPS' business...
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
ARM Design To Take Mobile Chips Over 1GHz
News ARM Holdings is to give handheld devices a speed boost with its next-generation "Jaguar" processor microarchitecture, dubbed ARM11, which will ultimately surpass speeds of 1GHz. The architecture, details of which were revealed on Monday to coincide...
[April 29, 2002, 13:55]
ARM Shares Tumble As Transmeta Readies Crusoe
News Shares in mobile microchip manufacturer ARM (quote: ARM) have fallen dramatically in anticipation of the launch of the much-talked-about new Crusoe processor from silicon start-up Transmeta. Passion for ARM shares has been significantly dampened by...
[January 19, 2000, 15:44]
Motorola's DragonBall Pumps Up On ARM
News Most significantly, the addition of the ARM core gives the DragonBall processor line the ability to incorporate wireless connectivity. But Palm announced recently intentions to shift to chips made by ARM Holdings.
[December 12, 2000, 8:08]
Chip Designers Paint A Brighter Picture
News Instead of creating a custom processor core, a chipmaker could license a core from, say, ARM and then focus its engineering efforts on other areas where it can gain more of an advantage, such as providing superior MPEG video playback.
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
Crusoe's Ripple Effect On Psion, ARM, Others
News Some industry observers reckon handheld device makers Psion (quote: PON) and Palm Computing, not to mention embedded-processor developers ARM Holdings (quote: ARM) and others, may also need to rethink their strategies.
[January 20, 2000, 17:10]
Start-up Gives PDAs A Multimedia Boost
News Start-up chipmaker MediaQ is working on a new applications processor for handheld computers and mobile phones that will use technology from UK-based ARM, which licenses designs for power-efficient processors.
[April 16, 2003, 15:27]
Thumb Upgrade To Turbo Charge Mobile Phones
News ARM is getting a new Thumb. ARM's Thumb 2 instructions update the company's original Thumb instructions, a subset of commands inside the overall ARM architecture, the basic architecture behind the chips running most mobile phones on the market.
[June 17, 2003, 11:13]
IPhone Update...
Blog The processor IS an ARM. Samsung does ARM-based SoC (System on a Chip) circuits, but also has a Power licence. And Apple's job listings include a requirement for someone who knows OSX and ARM. FBR Research, as reported in EE Times, is saying...
[January 13, 2007, 22:44]
Symbian Eyes Up The MIPS Chips
News Potter said there is already an implementation of Epoc on a non-ARM processor, though he did not clarify whether this was the Motorola chip. Industry observers say ARM Holdings (quote: ARM), whose RISC chips power the Psion handheld device, will...
[February 23, 2000, 12:55]
Palm Prepares XScale Handhelds
News The PXA250 is the latest ARM-based processor from Intel. In the next few months Palm is due to switch away from its Motorola Dragonball designs to more advanced hardware running on processors with an ARM core, similar to those which already power...
[June 19, 2002, 16:49]
Next-gen Palms Promise Double Battery Life
News Motorola was demonstrating a version of Palm OS 5 -- the next-generation operating system -- running on the DragonBall MX1, its first ARM-based processor. There's nothing inherent in the ARM technology that limits it to high-end devices," he said.
[May 22, 2002, 12:16]
3G Chips Come Armed With Security
News Because cellphones are increasingly being used in the same ways as computers, chip designer ARM has moved toward increased security and scaled-down power consumption. The chip design -- called ARM 1176JZ -- is designed for 3G phones, which are...
[October 15, 2003, 15:00]
