Here's a riddle:
What is five times faster than an Intel Atom chip, yet is 60% smaller and uses about the same power? Give up?
It is a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 chip running at 2GHz. And someone is building something with it as we speak.
Buried inside ARM's 3rd quarter earnings announced today was that they've given one of their licensees the rights to a chip that is truely a laptop-class processor, yet has the physical and energy footprint of a smartphone:
Twenty-three of the licenses were for ARM’s advanced Cortex and Mali™ graphics processors of which eight licenses were signed for the Cortex-A family processors for use in consumer electronics and mobile computing applications, including a license for ARM’s 2GHz implementation of a dual core Cortex-A9 processor.
We've contacted ARM who've said the licensee cannot be disclosed under th
