ARM tips plans for next-generation processor

Peter Clarke, EE Times
(03/06/2007 7:27 AM EST)
 
LONDON — ARM Holdings plc, the licensor of processors and related intellectual property, has tipped sparse details of plans for a next-generation processor a follow on to the three processor cores the comprise the Cortex series.

Company executives said ARM (Cambridge, England) has signed a licensee for a next-generation processor during an analysts' conference held to discuss ARM's Q4 2006 financial results and indicated the processor would adhere to the same instruction set architecture as Cortex processors and it would take about 18 months for the design to complete and come to silicon.