ARM still raking it in, and not just in phones ARM has had a good quarter, powering 900 million mobile phones and 600 million other devices sold in the last three months as it expands beyond the pocket and into the world. Revenues are increasing at a similar rate as ARM's Q3 results show, though this quarter's royalties are based on the last quarter's shipments. Total …
So called "smartbooks" were killed in utero by MS and Intel who threatened to remove their "Market Support" from any OEMs who considered producing them.
Me, I'm hoping that we will eventually see some sort of "open" server architecture based on ARM processors.
Hand grenade is for Wintel, who have been holding the industry back for decades
I'm designing for an ARM9 SoC right now. One thing to keep in mind though, is that ARM does not make processors (hence the quotes) and it is up to the actual manufacturer ie. Atmel, Texas Instruments, or whoever; to integrate the core with the peripherals like Ethernet, LCD controller, and so on.
When a design engineer talks about a good ARM part, they're probably thinking of the whole chip.
That said, they are great processors; especially for embedded systems.
In corporate fortunes ... Intel languishes in gradual decline since dot-com. Peers like AMD and NVidia tread water. Meanwhile in the UK, ARM soars, as does the smaller Imagination.
ARM is in a very good place, at the heart of the world's rapidly-growing market for low-power devices. Glad I bought the shares when they were under 90p !
As people like to point out Ad nausum ARM do *not* mfg *any* chips but design them and their support software (in some case. Other parts are ports from Gnu).
Pro
No multi billion $ upgrade costs for a new fab.
No never ending material/imaging/processing treadmill.
Con
Rely on *someone* upgrading their foundry to make the next generation of devices.
Can't set prices for chips in way Intel can.
While some companies might think the obvious move is to take over a fab line and offer a vertically integrated offering history suggests other chip makers would get *very* nervous at such behavior.
I hope they will continue to resist this deceptively tempting but ultimately bad idea.
Great , now wheres that Dual Arm cortex A9 with 128bit SIMD better than sse for sale this cristmass?
people want to buy these Dual Arm cortex A9 PC devices NOW, whats with the licencee's holding back these dual and quad design's that already exist!
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