Design & Reuse

Samsung's ARM roadmap leads to quad-core 'Aquila'

Peter Clarke, EE Times
(04/19/2010 8:00 AM EDT)

LONDON — A roadmap document from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. shows the company working on a series of ARM-based processors designed to power future netbook computers.

The document (samsungapforcomputing.pdf), dated November 2009, begins with the premise that Intel-plus-Microsoft Windows platforms will be replaced over time with Samsung-plus-Chrome, Ubuntu platforms.