ARM had two separate announcements this morning in Barcelona. The first was that its partners had ramped up its Cortex A8 processor production and would have chips in production soon. This class of chip (TI OMAP3) is what the upcoming (TI OMAP3 series) Palm Pre, Archos, and Toshiba (Qualcomm Snapdragon) phones will have inside. We'll likely this type of chip in 2009 iPhones.
In addition, with the help of Sony Erricsson/Silicon Partners, ARM will be demonstrating multi-core processor Cortex A9 processor technology that will be used in 2010 running SymbianOS.
The company said it will show a low-power Cortex chip manufactured using IBM's 32-nanometer process that could bring features like full 1080p high-definition video to smartphones while drawing less power.
The chip wil
