Shanghai electronics firm licenses ARM CPUs, GPUs
Keywords:ARM cores? intellectual property? ARM11 processor core? Cortex-A5? Cortex-A9?
Shanghai InfoTM is a subsidiary of Shuoying Digital Science & Technology (China) Co. Ltd., which is its main customer. ARM said the licenses would be used to provide 3D graphics in a range of mobile computing devices.
Shanghai InfoTM is expected to have multicore ICs ready later this year to target a range of mobile computing devices ranging from tablet computers to netbooks.
Integrating ARM CPU and GPU IP into product designs delivers optimized coherency and memory bandwidth for higher-performance and more efficient data sharing, ARM said
The Cortex-A9 is likely to be targeted at higher-performance applications while the Cortex-A5 MPCore processor is the most energy-efficient, lowest-cost processor suitable for delivering the Internet to a range of devices from entry-level smartphones to consumer and industrial devices.
- Peter Clarke
??EE Times
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