Purported specs include a 10-inch screen, 3G data and a custom ARM processor courtesy of its P.
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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.
Its enclosure resembles the silver metallic enclosure of a MacBook Pro, but inside, it has the ARM processor architecture and operating system of the iPhone.
For the first time, a 1 GHz ARM A8 processor controls the path of the coil of the bass loudspeaker in real-time.
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Under Mr East's tenure Arm has become the provider of processor technology for nearly all mobile phones and many other consumer and industrial electronic devices in use today.
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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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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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An Intel processor-based version of Surface will launch about three months after the ARM-based version, the company has previously said, which would suggest a January debut.
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.
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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As high-mobility devices like smartphones and tablets continue their rapid rise in prominence, representing an increasing proportion of all Internet access devices, many processor sales are going to ARM licensees these days rather than to Intel and AMD.
ARM, which provides processor designs used in the majority of tablets and smartphones, posted Q4 revenue of 164.2 million pounds, and profits of 4.1 pence per share, ahead of the Street consensus at 151.6 million pounds and 4 pence, the financial news site StreetAccount notes.
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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.
Today, ARM chips account for close to 90% of the smartphone processor market and 10% of the mobile computing market (including tablets, netbooks and laptops).
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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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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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The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S is like the Yoga 11, except instead of an ARM chip, it has a laptop-grade Ivy Bridge processor.
In addition to ARM and IBM, four of the world's leading application processor companies, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, will align open source engineering efforts within Linaro.
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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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).
This particular rumor has been swirling for a while already, but Reuters says its own sources are now backing it up: Samsung will switch from an ARM-based design and use Intel as the supplier of the processor inside at least one version of its next 10-inch slate, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1.
Such is the case with a trio of WiBro-capable PDAs being marketed under the Flyvo brand by POSDATA, all of which run Windows CE 5.0 Professional Plus on an ARM processor and let you get your 'net on with WiFi as well in case you have to travel outside of Korea.
Under the hood there's a 240Mhz ARM processor, which has DSP and Java acceleration built in, and 16MB of SRAM, expandable to 128MB, giving the player enough juice to run Adobe Flash and Java apps with future firmware upgrades.
Both ARM and Intel architecture will be Windows 8 compatible and we feel that the backward compatibility of Intel processor with older versions might not suffice as a significant differentiating factor.
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