The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.
The Cortex-A57 is ARM's most advanced high-performance applications processor, while the Cortex-A53 is the most power-efficient ARM application processor.
The market is crowded with established players like Nvidia launching a dual-core ARM-based processor for mobile devices.
The device also has a front-facing camera, HDMI out, a 1 Ghz ARM-based processor and Flash support.
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For one thing, this month the company is only launching the Windows RT version of Surface, running on an ARM-based processor.
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With Samsung's comments about an "unsatisfactory user experience" with Android 4.0, I feared it would overwhelm my poor old phone and its single-core ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
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That is consistent with previous statements from the company indicating that the Windows RT version of Surface, which will use an ARM-based processor, will launch in tandem with Windows 8.
What we do know is that we were looking at a quad-core Mali-T604 and dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor, with a fabrication size in the range of "28 to 40 nanometers" (confirming the exact size would reveal the manufacturer).
For the quarter, ARM said 1.1 billion ARM processor-based chips were shipped for mobile devices and tablets, and another 800 million for consumer and embedded devices.
It's based on an ARM 32-bit processor running embedded Android and contains a Wi-Fi interface.
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Despite this, the smartphone market remains dominated by ARM technology-based processor chips.
Japanese Apple fan site Macotara is reporting Apple has ordered up a MacBook Air powered by the ARM-based A5 processor Apple designs.
Running it all is an low-power ARM-based embedded processor.
The announcement parallels a move Apple made in 2010 from Intel processors to its own ARM-based A4 smartphone processor for its line of Apple TV set top boxes.
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Packed in their 7-by-2-foot titanium-framed fiberglass bodies are terabytes of cellphone flash storage, a dual-core ARM processor running open Linux software, a battery pack, sensor arrays, a GPS unit, and wireless and satellite communications systems.
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Just a day after Samsung unveiled the smartphone as its inaugural Exynos 5 Octa device, the company has confirmed that the not-really-eight-core ARM processor should be in mass production during the second quarter of the year, or between April and June.
OMAP5, due by 2013, will have two next-generation ARM Cortex A15 processor cores.
The company's first release is planned for November 2010 and will provide performance optimizations for SoCs based on the ARM Cortex(TM)-A processor family.
Internally, the Aakash uses a single-core ARM Cortex-A8 running at 800 MHz, an video co-processor to provide HD video, and 256 MB of RAM.
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The Samsung Exynos 5 Dual is the world's first ARM Cortex A-15 Dual Core application processor.
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Kind of like Apple TV, which recently swapped out an Intel processor for its own ARM-based A4 design.
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It's powered by a 1GHz AMLogic ARM processor, has a Mali-400 GPU and comes with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, plus an SD card slot for future expansion.
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Dell's ability to provide end-to-end technology solutions using ARM processor architecture and the WindowsRT operating system means businesses can be assured that they will be able to manage and secure the XPS 10 on their networks.
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Considering the Nokia N900 runs Flash 9 extremely well on a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP 3 processor (and the Palm Pre, which uses the same chip, will be able to run Flash 10.1 when webOS 1.4 comes out) we don't see any reason other than politics that the iPad can't do it on that fancy new 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9-based A4 chip.
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Apple would need to build a 64-bit processor compatible with the ARM instruction set, a project that could take years.
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Slowly but surely, Intel is gaining some traction in the mobile phone processor market now dominated by ARM-based chips.
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At the heart of each tablet is a powerful 1.2 GHz Arm Cortex A8 processor paired with a Mali-400 graphics card for superior performance.
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Its powerful new 3D graphics and video accelerators, ARM Cortex(TM) -A9 application processor and other key components bring the ultimate in navigation and entertainment experiences to mainstream consumers.
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Under the hood, the existing pentaband 3G radio gives way to China's proprietary TD-SCDMA standard, and the ARM 11 processor gets a 20MHz speed bump to 700MHz.
The scalability of the processor series enables ARM partners to create system-on-chips (SoCs) that address diverse markets, from smartphones through to high-performance servers.
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