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Another great day at ARM TechCon3, the ARM Partnership model was in full display! As many partners & Connected Community members attended conference sessions and showed off their ARM collaborations. Listed below are some of the great media coverage around ARM TechCon3 over the past two days.

ARM CTO: Power Surge Could Create 'Dark Silicon'
By Rick Merritt, EE Times, October 22, 2009
Without fresh innovations, designers could find themselves by 2020 in an era of "dark silicon," able to build dense devices they cannot afford to power, according to the chief technology officer of ARM Ltd. The warning came amid much discussion of the future of both FPGAs and netbooks at the annual ARM technical conference here.

Exhibits Emphasize Markets and Development Ease
By Rick Nelson, EDN, October 22, 2009
At last month’s Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, vendors highlighted an impressive range of technologies that address issues ranging from “green” applications to data and code security. Toward that end, companies presented asset-management systems, code-analysis tools, RTOSs, microcontrollers, data converters, and prototyping tools. Security products were on offer - both to prevent IP (intellectual-property) theft and to deter the insertion of malicious code.


ARM fills out CPU lineup with Cortex A5
By Jon Stokes, Ars Technica, October 22, 2009
ARM has filled out its burgeoning Cortex A family of processors with a new addition at the bottom end of the lineup, the newly announced Cortex-A5. The A5 is intended to replace the ARM9 and ARM11 parts commonly found in everything from smartphones to the Nintendo DS, and as such, it's not exactly a barn-burner in performance. But then again, it doesn't have to be, because A5's focus is on providing support for the full range of A-profile features in the smallest possible power envelope.

ARM Cortex-A5 Chip to Bring Smart Phones to the Masses
By Flora Graham, CNET, October 22, 2009
Envious of your mate's Palm Pre, iPhone or Nokia N97, but not willing to shell out the wonga to make it your own? ARM, the British company that makes the chips that power those phones, promises its new Cortex-A5 chip will make all your cut-price smart phone dreams come true.

ARM Reveals More Details of Cortex-A5 Processor
By Steve Bush, Electronics Weekly, October 22, 2009
ARM has developed its Cortex-A5 processor for the smartphone market, following on from the ARM9 and 11. Compared on the same process, according ARM figures, the A5 uses 80% less power than the firm’s ARM11, its current smartphone processor, and delivers 20% more processing, while needing 33% less silicon area.

ARM Launches Its Smallest, Lowest Power Multicore Chip
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, October 22, 2009
ARM on Wednesday launched the Cortex-A5 processor, the chip designer's smallest and lowest power multicore processor for devices including Internet-enabled mobile phones and embedded systems.

ARM Shows Mali Graphics Chip with 720p 3D
Elecctronista, October 21, 2009
ARM at the TechCon3 expo starting today will begin showing working examples of its Mali graphics core. The design is now known to be much faster than most existing mobile graphics and, even with the basic single-core Mali-200, can render modern-looking 3D in 720p at 30 frames per second. In many cases it can use 4X antialiasing to clean up the image without a performance hit.

ST Unveils World’s First ARM Cortex-M Series Microcontrollers Featuring Advanced 90nm Embedded Flash Technology
EthioPlanet, October 21, 2009
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has achieved a breakthrough for microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M series of processor cores by announcing the industry’s first devices featuring embedded Flash at 90nm process technology.

TI Launches Cortex-A8 MCUs for Industrial Applications
New Electronics, October 22, 2009
The superscalar Cortex-A8 processor is clocked at 500MHz and provides 1000 Dhrystone MIPS. This, says TI, enables users to run full featured operating systems and experience faster web browsing.

Green Hills Debuts Secure Virtualization for ARM TrustZone Technology
By Shamila Janakiraman, TMC Net, October 22, 2009
INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization or ISV is based on Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS, an operating system technology to be certified by the NSA to EAL6+High Robustness. The security level achieved is very high for any software product, company officials said.

Katie Morgan, Strategic Marketing Specialist, ARM, has newly entered the fast paced and exciting world of technology. With SmartPhone in hand and mini laptop at her side, exploring the ever-evolving digital and social media outlets of Web 2.0 (wait is it Web 3.0 already?) is her thing. She looks forward to the rapid innovation that is sure to change her highly connected lifestyle into "connected without borders."

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