Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: ARM | Subject: Cortex-A8
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 06 October 2005
Mobile processor promises desktop-type
performance
The Cortex-A8 processor aims to revolutionise consumer and low-power mobile devices, enabling the delivery of higher levels of entertainment and innovation to end users.
ARM has unveiled its new Cortex-A8 processor which it reckons will revolutionise consumer and low-power mobile devices, enabling the delivery of higher levels of entertainment and innovation to end users Launched at the second annual ARM Developers' Conference, in Santa Clara, California, the ARM Cortex-A8 processor delivers up to 2000DMIPS making it ideal for demanding consumer products running multichannel video, audio, and gaming applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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