Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Arm wards off Intel with faster, cooler smartphone chip

Arm Holdings Wednesday introduced a processor for smartphones and other devices that it says will be cheaper, and more powerful and energy-efficient than the two ARM processors it will supplant. The company expects that the new chip will also help it ward off incursions from Intel's rival Atom chip.

ARM announced the chip Wednesday at its annual ARM TechCon3 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

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