Opinion: Power imperative favors ARM's client-to-server play
Peter Clarke, EETimes
9/10/2010 7:11 AM EDT
LONDON – The Cortex-A15 'Eagle' processor announcement from announcement from ARM is set to help the company secure its position in next-generation mobile clients and make in-roads against its rivals in some high-margin applications. Indeed ARM's A15 processor could be described as a cloud on Intel's cloud computing horizon.
The A15 processor is due to appear in silicon in time to be in products for the holiday-buying season of 2012, said Eric Schorn, vice president of marketing for ARM processors. And it has been received pretty well by analysts and journalists, although there has been some skepticism about whether one design can span the applications from smartphone to server.
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