NEC Electronics Corp. looks set to grab a share of the lead in terms of high performance ARM processors at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week with a quad-core Cortex-A9 design. The technology is due to showcased on the booth of ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), the originator of the Cortex-A9 multiprocessing core.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd., a supplier of chips for storage, communications and consumer electronics, claimed to have developed the world’s first “quadruple” core processor based on the ARM architecture at the Consumer Electronics Show, but did not show the technology or provide any detail. It is not clear whether Marvell’s design is based on Cortex-A9 or is a custom design. The Marvell design is said to run at a clock frequency in excess of 1-GHz.

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