NEC intros quad-core ARM

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NEC intros quad-core ARM for mobiles

Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(02/11/10, 8:15 AM GMT)

Barcelona, Spain – At the Mobile World Congress here NEC Electronics Corp. showed off a quad-core Cortex-A9 design for use in a variety of mobile computing applications.

NEC made the first implementation of multicored ARM processor back in 2005. It was a test chip based on the ARMv6 instruction set architecture, comprising four ARM11 processors running with cache coherence and made by NEC using a generic 130-nm manufacturing process.

To learn more, go to www.nec.com or www.arm.com.

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