ARM Builds 28 & 20NM Research Centers
ARM Holdings has announced that it will be opening a new research and development center at Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. The company’s processors are used in everything from smartphones to tablets.
According to DigiTimes, “The center will enable even closer interaction with local ARM partners and serve as an important focal point in the region for advanced technology engineering," ARM said in a statement. "Product development is now underway at the center for28nm and 20nm technologies, targeting advanced ARM Cortex-A Series processors and Mali-T600 Series GPUs.”
The center will focus on 28-nanometer and 20-nanometer next generation technologies that are poised to power future wirelessly connected devices.
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ARM, in trying to keep up with the high demand for its processors, is planning to spend $200 million on research and development this year up from the $100 million spent last year.
ARM Holdings President Tudor Brown expects ARM to grab a hold of 55 percent of 34 billion units of SOCs in 2015. Last year ARM claimed 28 percent of 22 billion units of SOCs shipped worldwide.
In regards to Intel’s Ultrabook, Brown disagreed that people wanted Intel processors inside of them stating that “the form factor of Ultrabook is ideally suited to ARM technology.”
ARM is viewed as being more flexible with their system-on-chip (SoC) architecture, while Intel is in a transition mode coming from x86 architectures.
Brown taking the netbook computer as an example said that people wanted ARM to support Windows and that very soon it will in an Ultrabook form factor. Microsoft claimed in early 2011 that Windows OS would work on ARM’s SoC.
