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Team on 26 October 2006
STMicroelectronics upgrades to Cortex-A8
STMicroelectronics has joined the community of licensees of the high-performance ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
STMicroelectronics has joined the community of licensees of the high-performance ARM Cortex-A8 processor As STMicroelectronics expands its presence in next-generation mobile devices, it intends to deploy the Cortex-A8 processor across its mobile technology portfolio, delivering desktop performance to a wide range of affordable mobile phones and portable multimedia devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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By combining the performance and power benefits of the ARM Cortex-A8 processor with its own multifaceted Nomadik multimedia applications processors, STMicroelectronics can deliver advanced performance and functionality to end-users.
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The Cortex-A8 processor was specifically designed with such services in mind, while still enabling systems designers to meet stringent time to market demands.
"The next generation of personal multimedia electronics devices must incorporate advanced functionality, with the processing power needed to drive the rich content demanded by the end-user such as mobile games, video-on-demand, 3G map services and multimegapixel cameras", said Jyrki Hannikainen, Application Processor Division General Manager, STMicroelectronics.
"By combining ARM's flagship Cortex-A8 processor, with the distributed processing of the Nomadik multimedia platform, ST will keep delivering truly compelling high performance, and low-power solution to the market".
The processor is supported by a wide range of ARM technologies for rapid system design including the new RealView Developer Suite 3.0; CoreSight debug and trace technology; and software library support through the OpenMAX multimedia processing standard.
"Our latest Cortex-A8 processor licensing agreement with STMicroelectronics will deliver innovative technologies to market which incorporate high performance and power efficiency in next-generation multimedia electronics devices", said Mike Inglis, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, ARM.
"The ARM Cortex-A8 processor and supporting technologies delivers unparalleled levels of performance and energy efficiency in advanced devices, enabling rich content and applications that appeal to the needs of global markets".
The Cortex-A8 processor is the first applications processor based on the next-generation ARMv7 architecture, and features Thumb-2 technology for greater performance, energy efficiency, and code density.
It includes the first implementation of the powerful Neon signal processing extensions to accelerate media codecs such as H.264 and MP3.
The Cortex-A8 solution also includes Jazelle-RCT Java acceleration technology to optimise just in time (JIT) and dynamic adaptive compilation (DAC), and reduces memory footprint by up to three times.
Additionally, the new processor features TrustZone technology for secure transactions and digital rights management (DRM), and IEM capability for low power.
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