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“We’re worrying about systems that are going to be out there in 2014, 15 and 16,” says with Bob Morris, ARM’s Director of Mobile Computing as he talks to TechRadar about the future of mobile and tablet processors. “There are some very interesting architecture changes that will be happening as we get further out. It’s pretty [...]
Interview: ARM talks Android 3.0 and the multi-core future of tablets
img srchttpcdn.mos.techradar.comclassificationsTabletsMotorolaXOOMdynLhorizYouTubeCES1200200.jpgpWere worrying about systems that are going to be out there in 2014, 15 and 16, says with Bob Morris, ARMs Director of Mobile Computing as he talks to TechRadar about the future of mobile and tablet processors.ppThere are some very interesting architecture changes that will be happening as we get further out. Its pretty cool.ppWe recently spent some time over a coffee with Morris, who is happy to talk candidly about ARMs future plans and the implications of Android 3.0 for the company as well as the recent Microsoft announcement of ARM support.ppUnlike many of ARMs employees who are based in the companys home of Cambridge, Morris is based in Austin, Texas. pppYoull see a couple more Cortex A9s that are coming out this year, says Morris, talking about the companys dual and quadcore chip core design currently being implemented by several SoC System on Chips including Nvidias Tegra 2 and Texas Instruments OMAP4. ppThe A8 core was designed in Austin and released to our partners maybe four years ago, youre now seeing it in a lot of things. ppThe A9 was done in France and that went out probably two years ago and youre now just starting to see them come out. ppThe key core that will appear in the 201416 timeframe is the Cortex A15. Its being designed in Austin and were just starting to release that to partners, it will be at least two years before you see products.ppstrongAndroid 3.0 excitingstrongppTalking about Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Morris finds it hard to hide his excitement. And its no wonder given the amount of Android tablets that will hit the market with the new OS virtually all running on ARM silicon. ppimg srchttpcdn.mos.techradar.comclassificationsces2011motomoto21420100.jpg altMotorola xoom width420imgppThere are some good implementations and Im really excited about Honeycomb.how important its going to be. Every tablet thats running Android so far has been where theyve taken the OHA output and theyve forked the operating system and done all the mods, driving larger screens. ppAnd anytime theres a change for the OS they have to make it and cant put any of the changes back into the main tree. It was very labour intensive and you didnt have consistency. ppHoneycomb looks like its going to fix a lot of that stuff, a tablet release with Android Market embedded. Youll see sales start to ramp up. ppI think its going to be a very interesting platform.ppWere going out and looking at all the different drivers for Android, adds Morris. We want to make sure that all those drivers are tuned, just like we helped Google. Then we want to get the drivers back into the main Android tree. Boring stuff, but it has to be there.ppTalking about the predicted growth in tablet devices in general, Morris says that 2010 was delivery, 2011 is all about scaling. Multicore is going to be a big piece as are open OSs, whats happening with Honeycomb, well see what happens with Chrome OS and whats going on with RIM and HP. Were working with manufacturers and helping their time to market.ppHes also expecting big things from ARMs architecture licensees such as Qualcomm, who take the blueprints from the UK company and build their own chips.ppstrongMulticore performancestrongppMorris is also keen to talk up the performance and battery life improvements available with multicore processing on smartphones and tablets. He shows a figures relating to Pandora browser performance using FroYo 2.2 on a dualcore ARM system a 1.9x improvement over a single core system. ppIf you have a 1GHz processor and you have a processor thats running two 550MHz cores they give you the same result on browser performance. But your power is 60 per centthats why youll see this in handsets, they have the ability to throttle up and down. You have the ability for more battery life running multicore.ppMost of the stuff were running here today is A8. A9s what youre going to get into more. At the close of 2011 or 2012 youll see our A15 come out and that will really raise the bar for performance. If youre really looking at what we think will be exciting regarding the Microsoft side, is that this will be a very nice platform.ppimg width1 height1 srchttprss.feedsportal.comc669f415081s120b501amf.gif border0div classmfrelatedpRelated StoriespulliMotorola Xoom will have a premium priceliliGoogle not aiming Chrome OS at tabletsliliLG Optimus Pad rumours what you need to knowliliMotorola Xoom what you need to knowliliNotion Ink Adam what you need to knowliuldivdiv classmfviraltable border0trtd valignmiddleimg srchttpres3.feedsportal.comimagesemailthis2.gif border0 tdtd valignmiddleimg srchttpres3.feedsportal.comimagesbookmark.gif border0 tdtrtabledivbrbrimg srchttpda.feedsportal.comr93582692305u49f415081c669s120b501akg254068143a2.img border0img srchttpfeeds.feedburner.comrtechradarmobilecomputingnews4TlZIHdkB6g4 height1 width1a targetblank relnofollow hrefhttpfeedproxy.google.comrtechradarmobilecomputingnews3TlZIHdkB6g4story01.htmTechRadar Mobile computing newsa
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