With an eye on next generation mobile, wireless and consumer applications, Broadcom has signed a licensing agreement for the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor. The agreement includes ARM Neon Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) technology for the ARM Cortex-A series processors, to provide acceleration for advanced multimedia, gaming and compute intensive applications.
Nambi Seshadri, VP and CTO, Mobile Platforms and Wireless Connectivity Division, Broadcom, said: “This licensing agreement extends our ARM processor portfolio. The flexibility and scalability of the Cortex-A9 processor enables us to optimise development costs by addressing the requirements of wireless applications from a common core platform.”
