Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)
At the Mobile World Congress in Spain this week, ARM is teaming up with ST-Ericsson to show off its new Cortex-A9 multi-core processor. At a private event, the companies will be demonstrating what it says is the first Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) model running on the Symbian mobile operating system. Symbian, while still the world’s largest smartphone operating system (with nearly 50 percent of the market in Q3 2008), fails to elicit the excitement of… Continue Reading
ST-Ericsson joint venture creates wireless chip powerhouse
ST Microelectronics and mobile phone maker Ericsson have combined their wireless chip divisions into a joint venture with 8,000 employees.
The new company will be based in Geneva, Switzerland and brings together what were formally called Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless. It is now a supplier to four of the top five cell phone makers and will have combined revenues of about $3.6 billion for 2008. It also has $400 million in cash.
Alain Dutheil will… Continue Reading