Monday, February 23, 2009

ARM has released its smallest processor


British company ARM, the largest developer of processors for mobile devices, announced the chip Cortex-M0. It is the smallest and energy efficient processor company.
Cortex-M0 consumes only 85 microwatt per megahertz of clock frequency and binary compatible with older processors, the architecture of Cortex-M3. His optimum operating frequency is 50 megahertz.

The new processor can be used in medicine, electronic measurements, the illumination devices, gaming accessories, compact power supplies and other devices.

A few days ago announced the ARM chip architecture Cortex A9 with the code name Sparrow. This cheap multicore processors, which the company hopes to enter the netbook market.

illustration from arm.com

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