In late 1990s, GSM phones began to shrink to pocket-sized devices with excellent battery life; in part this was due to the market widely adopting the ARM7 family of processors. With each new generation of company’s processors, there have been corresponding increases in functionality, fun and user experience. The 2009 Mobile World Congress is an important one for the company and its partners as the new Cortex family of processors are at the heart of new, exciting web-centric products such as the Palm Pre and Toshiba TG-01 handsets, Netbooks and Hybrid PCs. It is also the event where we can show the new Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor for the first time running Symbian OS, demonstrating that increases in power-efficient performance can be obtained by having clusters of Cortex family processors working together on a single chip.
More complex Smartphones often have four or five; functioning as application processors, and in the modem, WLAN, GPS, SIM, camera module and Bluetooth integrated chips.
The company’s partnership of over 500 connected community members includes 200 silicon partners who shipped 126 company powered chips per second in 2008, including the silicon in nearly every device on show at Mobile World Congress.
