What worries exec from ARM?

Mark LaPedus, EE Times
(10/14/2009 7:44 PM EDT)

Ilsan-seogu, South Korea -- What worries ARM Holdings plc in terms of next-generation chip design?

Tudor Brown, president of the processor intellectual-property (IP) licensor, made it clear during a presentation: power consumption.

In the presentation at the 11th International Semiconductor 2009 (i-Sedex) trade show here, Brown said that the industry must work on lowering power consumption by 50 percent every two nodes. If it fails to address those issues, ''the industry could stall,'' he warned.

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