“Warren East, president and chief executive officer of ARM Holdings plc, has confirmed that “at least three” processor cores developed at his company are present within the iPhone from Apple Inc.,” Peter Clarke reports for EE Times.
Clarke reports, “The main CPU for the iPhone is a PXA320, formerly the Monahan applications processor from Intel Corp., now supplied by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. The PXA320 is therefore a descendant of the StrongARM processor developed by Digital Equipment Corp. under an architectural license from ARM in the 1990s.”
Clarke reports, “When asked how many ARM processor cores were in the iPhone, East said his company has a good track record of not talking about customers’ products… When asked to say if three was an underestimate or even a large underestimate, East said: ‘Apple will talk about the contents of the iPhone when Apple’s ready to talk about the contents of the iPhone.'”
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MacDailyNews Note: The ARM design was started in 1983 as a development project at Acorn Computers Ltd. In the late 1980s Apple Computer started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. This work would eventually turn into the ARM6. The first models were released in 1991, and Apple used the ARM6-based ARM 610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.
Well, the are working on having the cars do the driving, might help those who arn’t sure what a turn signal is. Discovery is doing a series on it. Future cars
i’d like to see the iphone processors shrunk down to boost battery. 45nm would be sweet
OK, so the price of three Arms is an arm and a leg?
Can I keep the leg and just get two ARMs?
I know exactly where I will use that extra one…
In the late 1980s Apple Computer started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. This work would eventually turn into the ARM6. The first models were released in 1991, and Apple used the ARM6-based ARM 610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.
And when Apple had their own Longhorn hell in the nineties (Copland/Gershwin), they sold ARM shares for hundreds of millions quarter after quarter to keep afloat. Would’ve been nice to have them today.
@ What the…?
‘mates’ is slang for friends in Liverpool (my home)…
“Mum, I’m just goin to me mates house”
Who knows, with the recent aquisition of Liverpool FC by George Gillet and Tom Hicks, you might start hearing more scouse phrases in the U.S.
Know what I mean kidda?