The old wisdom states that every journey begins with a single step, and it’s possible Apple’s tablet tale opened up yet another chapter on ARM’s morning announcement of its development of a new 2GHz, dual-core version of its Cortex-A9 architecture.
This 40-nanometre processor offers its high speed at impressively low power, which ARM pegs at 0.25-Watts per CPU. The product’s being aimed at the market for fast small home devices.
A December 2008 Computerworld article predicts Apple’s tablet will be based on ARM’s Cortex architecture.
Now, we know ARM licenses its chip designs to others for manufacture. And we also know Apple’s former PA S