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To: slacker711 who wrote (48538)	11/8/2005 10:38:16 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (2) of 196536

QUALCOMM's ARMv7 based Scorpion ... Cool move, becoming an ARM architecture licensee which "enables the licensee to develop their own CPU implementations compliant with ARM's Instruction Set Architecture. The architecture licensee must have extensive design resources and the highest level of implementation expertise." arm.com Intel and Texas Instruments are both ARM architecture licensees (but evidently not yet for the ARMv7 instruction set). ARM Holdings slide set on the ARMv7 Processor Architecture here ... arm.com >> Qualcomm Crawls into MPUs with Scorpion Electronic News 11/8/2005 tinyurl.com Qualcomm claims to have entered the microprocessor arena, today announcing its new "Scorpion” mobile MPU and an expanded partnership with intellectual property kingpin ARM to include an architectural license. However, in its statements out of London this morning the company did not make it clear if Scorpion is in the design phase or working silicon, or if the company plans to sell the technology to its competitors or keep it locked up for internal use only. What the cell phone giant did make clear is that it is now a licensee of the ARMv7 architecture, highly coveted intellectual property (IP) in the consumer electronics world. "Qualcomm’s partnership with ARM as the first architecture licensee of the ARMv7 instruction set brings a new dimension to the ARM technology-compliant processor portfolio for mobile applications," said Warren East, CEO of ARM, in a statement. Qualcomm described its 65nm Scorpion as the first microprocessor to be specifically designed and optimized for integration into Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) solutions and a chip that “enables the convergence of mobile handsets with consumer electronics features by delivering superior performance and reduced power demands in mobile environment.” Qualcomm did not detail what consumer electronics features Scorpion will target, nor did it detail the MPU’s reduced power. San Diego-based Qualcomm did note that Scorpion will perform at a speed reaching 1GHz or to eight times the performance of existing MSM solutions, and that more information on MSM platforms and products using Scorpion will come next year. "The integration of the Scorpion microprocessor brings an unsurpassed 1GHz of performance and efficiency to Qualcomm's MSM solutions and makes it ideally suited for the next generation of the company's chipsets," said Sanjay K. Jha, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, in a statement. "Qualcomm's long-standing leadership in the wireless market and our expansion into the microprocessor industry with the development of Scorpion enable a highly optimized solution designed for the world's most advanced mobile devices." The companion multimedia coprocessor to Scorpion implements ARM Neon technology to provide an additional 8 billion operations per second for added multimedia capabilities. Qualcomm’s previous solutions are based on a core implementation license from ARM. << - Eric -

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