ST-Ericsson latest to join war of the cores
Announces dual-core offering, while Broadcom deepens ties with ARM
Published: 15 February, 2011
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Amid all the excitement about newer mobile silicon players like Nvidia, old stalwart ST-Ericsson has been quite overshadowed. It didn't remind the Mobile World Congress audience of its presence quite as decisively as Qualcomm, but it did unveil its own contribution to the crowded multicore processor market.
The firm's Nova and NovaThor platforms will scale from lower performance models fully integrated with the modem, to dedicated app processors for high end handsets and tablets. At the high end is the dual-core A9600, with each ARM processor running up to 2.5GHz, and offering 200% better performance than it current generation equivalent, the U8500.
ST-Ericsson also matched Qualcomm with dual-carrier HSPA+ chipsets, which combine multiple HSPA+ carriers into a single link. The Thor M7300 can support a theoretical peak downlink of 84Mbps using two 5MHz carriers plus MIMO.
Also in the ARM-based world, Broadcom further increased its armory for attacking the mobile market, by extending its deal with ARM. The two companies signed a broad license agreement, enabling Broadcom to access the entire range of ARM processors, from the Cortex-M0 to the Cortex-A15 app processor design and beyond. Also included are the security hardened SC000 processor core, and the newly announced Cortex-R5 and -R7 for high performance real time applications.
"ARM's wide portfolio of cores enhances Broadcom's strategy of designing cost optimized high performance solutions for a wide range of applications from Bluetooth headsets to high end application processors for tablets," said CEO Scott McGregor in a statement.
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