Microsoft and ARM Announce Eight New Silicon Vendors Are Developing Solutions for Windows CE .NET 4.2
Tuesday September 16, 9:01 am ET
Global Vendors Centrality Communications, Cirrus Logic, Conexant, Globespan Virata, LSI Logic, MagicEyes, NVIDIA and Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas Enable Range of ARM Core-Based, Windows CE-Powered Devices
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REDMOND, Wash., and CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, Sept. 16
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY; LSE: ARM) today announced that eight new silicon vendors --
Centrality Communications, Cirrus Logic Inc., Conexant Systems Inc., Globespan
Virata, LSI Logic Corp., MagicEyes Digital Co. Ltd., NVIDIA Corp. and Sharp
Microelectronics of the Americas -- will develop ARM(R) core-based solutions
optimized for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE .NET 4.2.
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The solutions developed by these companies will further extend the underlying performance, functionality and power efficiency of innovative, next-generation consumer devices. These silicon vendor solutions join existing ARM core-based solutions from vendors including Intel Corp., Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector, NeoMagic Corp., Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. and Texas Instruments Inc. to provide customers with a greater range of new intellectual property (IP) offerings designed for device categories such as multimedia, consumer electronics, digital imaging, gateways, set-top boxes and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phones.
"The close level of technical collaboration between Microsoft, ARM and its licensees has resulted in increased shipments and broadened opportunities for Windows CE .NET running on ARM processors," said Todd Warren, general manager of the Embedded Devices Group at Microsoft. "These relationships have yielded a wide range of choices and exciting new IP offerings to OEMs designing emerging device categories like multimedia, consumer electronics, digital imaging, gateways, set-top boxes and VoIP phones."
"The need to integrate hardware, software and communications protocols has made the development of consumer electronics increasingly complex," said Mike Inglis, executive vice president of marketing at ARM. "It is therefore vital that developers and providers of ARM technology-based solutions work together with industry leaders like Microsoft to develop the features and functionality that will enable the delivery of innovative devices that the market has come to expect. Through our close collaboration, we will be able to ease the development path and help device manufacturers easily and cost-efficiently deliver ARM Powered®, Windows CE .NET products that will meet consumer demands." |
