ARM's new brain

On Thursday I had the distinct pleasure of attending the San Francisco launch of ARM Ltd.'s Cortex A15 "codename Eagle"--the next generation high-end multicore ARM processor. Amongst many impressive performance efficiency improvements, the feature I've been most jubilant about (and couldn't talk about until now!) is the addition of a hardware hypervisor mode for the virtualization of multiple guest operating systems: a message to the rest of the chip market that ARM intends to push into higher end embedded systems (and beyond).

Click here to read more ...

×
Semiconductor IP