ARM Community: Smart Connected Devices - ARM Community

I have been running the ARM® server initiative for a little over four years. At kickoff, there were few that believed that ARM technology would find its way into server applications. Fast forward to today, more of the strands of the strategy are now in the public domain.

32-bit ARM powered platforms, from companies that include Boston, Dell, HP, Mitac and ...

I try to stay close to the trends and use cases for mobile devices and follow them with interest, but despite my interest and close involvement in the industry, I am sometimes taken by surprise at the pace of the mobile industry. A little over 18 months ago the launch of the first dual-core Cortex™-A9 processor-based Smartphone provided the greatest boost in smartphone performance the market has seen. Now, a short period later, the benefits of multicore are so great that they account for over 40 percent of all smartphone shipments and all high end devices, with quad-core solutions powering some of the highest performance platforms. This may have been a rapid adoption, but we stand on the verge of Cortex-A15 processor-based mobile devices entering the market later this year doubling the performance bar and next year big.LITTLE™ processing will arrive providing a new tool to platform vendors to deliver great performance and reduced power.

The primary demand for the increased mobile platform performance is quite simple to explain: demand fr...