ARM shows possibly iPhone-bound multicore mobile processor

Mon, Feb 16th, 2009

ARM is demonstrating the first working example of a multicore processor that may dramatically speed up smartphones. Meanwhile, Apple is looking for iPhone engineers that can write multithreaded code that may take advantage of ARM's breakthrough.

Limiting press exposure to a private event, the chip designer along with ST-Ericsson is running a chip based on its Cortex-A9 architecture on a Symbian-based test device at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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