Product category: Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: ARM | Subject: Cortex-A9
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 04 October 2007
Cores execute up to four instructions
per cycle
The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor and ARM Cortex-A9 single core processor deliver unprecedented performance within tight power constraints.
ARM has launched its new Cortex-A9 processors at the fourth annual ARM Developers' Conference, in Santa Clara, California The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor and ARM Cortex-A9 single core processor deliver unprecedented performance within tight power constraints for innovative devices that deliver superior overall functionality, such as smartphones, connected mobile computers, consumer electronics, automotive infotainment, networking and other embedded and enterprise devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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