ARM tips plans for Swift and Sparrow processor cores

Peter Clarke, EE Times
(02/03/2009 9:49 AM EST)
 
LONDON — ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), a licensor of processor-related intellectual property, has disclosed plans for processor cores to be introduced into its Cortex range, codenamed Swift and Sparrow.

Swift is a low-cost, low-power follow-on to the Cortex M3 microcontroller and Sparrow is aimed at the real-time applications catered for by the Cortex-R family of cores, the company's chief executive told analysts at a conference organized for analysts to discuss ARM's fourth quarter and full year financial results.