Modern cellphones typically contain several chips based on ARM designs.
Meanwhile, companies like Qualcomm, Samsung, Marvell and Nvidia produce their own takes on ARM designs for phones and mobile devices.
An example: STMicroelectronics has introduced chips, based on ARM designs, meant to make three-phase motors more efficient by using vector calculations to control their speed.
IDC, a market research firm based in Framingham, Massachusetts, expects over 13% of the processors in PCs to be based on ARM designs by 2015.
In January, Microsoft announced the next version of Windows – expected in 2012 – would be able to run on ARM designs, implying to some that it no longer thought Intel was the key architecture for the future.
Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and Broadcom are also fighting for share in the low-power applications processors for smart phones and mobile gizmos based on ARM designs, according to iSuppli analyst Tina Teng, with Texas Instruments leading the pack.
Apple designs based on ARM designs would enable the company to create hardware that theoretically runs cooler with less significant power demands, and would make it easier to get OS X and iOS closer together (it seems to be wanting to do just that with its recent executive rearrangement) in terms of cross-compatibility of software and code.
The really astounding thing is the number of chips based on ARM designs that have shipped annually in 2001 compared to 2012: up to 8.7 billion in 2012 from only 420 million in 2001, with customers growing to 322 from 77 in that time.
Now that you have finished the back, turn it over and draw out your own coat of arms (design) on the front.
Robotic laboratories that focus on biological experiments, robotic arms designed for individuals with kinetic disabilities, and robotic mechanisms that substitute human labor are few examples of the innovative advances.
In an exclusive interview before his keynote speech at the Computex exhibition in Taiwan, Intel's executive vice-president Sean Maloney explained how the company was changing to compete with mobile chips based on rival ARM designs.
