The mythical next generation of ARM\’s Cortex-A series, the Eagle, has made a reappearance inside the news this week, but much of the mystery remains. Texas Instruments has now revealed itself as the first licensee of the recent core, while also waxing poetic about its deep involvement and collaboration with ARM on its design and particular specifications. No, nobody was kind enough to let us in on what those specs might yet be, but since — technically speaking — the Eagle CPU hasn\’t even been announced yet, that\’s probably fair enough. For its part, TI expects to be first to market with its OMAP systems-on-chip integrating the most recent Cortex core, but that won\’t be happening for a terrific while yet, as most projections peg the Eagle\’s landing to be no before 2012. Guess we\’ll just should make do with some dual-core Snapdragons until then.
Integral involvement in core definition lays groundwork for breakthrough OMAP™ processor solutions on the horizon
DALLAS, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Building on its rich heritage of collaboration with ARM, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today confirmed that it was the first company to partner with ARM inside the conception and definition of the subsequent generation ARM® Cortex™-A series processor core (often called \” Eagle\” ) to be announced later this year. TI intends to exploit the recent processor to further strengthen and extend its future OMAP™ platform offerings. For additional information on TI\’s OMAP family, please visit: www.ti.com/omapwireless.
TI formally engaged with ARM on this project in June 2009, establishing a sophisticated lead partnership. During this time, TI leveraged its low power, system-on-chip (SoC) platform expertise with ARM to advance the processor core\’s definition. This engagement accelerates TI\’s ability to get to market early with high-performance OMAP products based on the recent ARM processor core, following up on its popular OMAP 4 platform that uses the powerful Cortex-A9 processor core. The partnership\’s efforts also reiterate TI\’s commitment to spearheading high-performance, low-power mobile advances.
TI aims to boost the bar in high-performance, power-efficient computing with upcoming OMAP platform solutions intended to radically transform devices while enriching the mobile lifestyle. Using its unique SmartReflex™ power and performance management technology, TI believes it could deliver SoCs with industry-leading low power consumption. For this reason, TI OMAP platform solutions based on the recent ARM processor core and SmartReflex will meet the mobile market\’s demand for intense performance capabilities and occasional power consumption. TI also believes that the hot ARM processor core has the opportunity of broader market application across TI\’s product portfolio.
\” Our position as ARM\’s advanced lead partner for its next-generation Cortex-A series processor core underscores TI\’s unwavering commitment to helping customers achieve success inside the competitive mobile world,\” said Remi El-Ouazzane, vp, OMAP platform business unit TI. \” We are thrilled to understand that our customers could be the first to leverage the recent ARM processor core\’s far-reaching innovations via our industry-leading OMAP products. Successful mobile industry achievements revolve around the \’high-performance, low-power\’ mantra, and we believe the consequences of our collaborative effort echo the importance of this must-have balance.\”
\” TI and ARM have a protracted history of collaboration and exchanging technical ideas to develop and define innovative technologies,\” said Mike Inglis, EVP and GM, ARM. \” Together, we\’re finding new how to bridge the space between performance and tool requirements, as is clear with our joint work on the subsequent-generation Cortex-A series processor core\’s definition. We sit up for seeing TI come to market with game-changing solutions that place ARM\’s new processor core at the center of tomorrow\’s consumer-focused smart mobile products.\”
TI\’s legacy with ARM began more than 15 years ago when, in 1993, TI and ARM embarked on their industry-changing partnership. TI has since shipped around 250 million OMAP processors, which contain ARM core processors. TI continues to leverage early engagement with ARM\’s technology development to quickly deliver advanced solutions in markets ranging from automotive to mobile. For additional information about TI and ARM\’s successful innovation history, please visit this corresponding MobileMomentum blog post: www.ti.com/mobilemomentum.
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