A New Venture by ARM: Cortex Netbooks
By Dean • Oct 27th, 2008 • Category: LaptopsARM, a British processor design company is recognized for its preeminence in the smartphone market. After marking its presence in the manufacture of smartphones, as well as the iPhone, the company is now ready to launch a netbook capable processor. The novel product is expected to offer competition to Intel’s Atom.
Speaking about the company’s latest move, Rob Coombs, director of ARM’s mobile solutions said,” In the future, we’re going to be in Netbooks…..Expect announcements in the next few months”. This step is quite surprising as ARM is more of a small devices company. However, only performance can reveal the capability of ARM’s netbooks, which are expected to run on Linux.
As conveyed by Coombs, we can expect to experience the new Cortex-A8 in netbooks along with smartphones. The first smartphones based on A8 will probably hit the market next year but we will have to wait till 2010 to see A9 in action. The multi-core A9 is in a direct competition with the approaching dual core Atom. Currently the Atom is found in nearly every netbook on the market, including the ultra successful Asus Eee PC 901 20G Linux model. The rivalry becomes even tougher with Intel’s recent announcement on the companies intentions to introduce Atom chips into smartphones. Will both the innovators benefit by entering into each-other’s shoes?
Well! It is just a matter of some more time and the product will be ready for an acid test
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