NEC Electronics 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.

Other processors on show at Mobile World Congress are set to include the dual-core Cortex-A9 Tegra mobile web processor from Nvidia and dual-core Omap-4 processor from Texas Instruments.

NEC has been an eager proponent of multiprocessing with the ARM architecture. NEC made the first implementation of multicored ARM processor back in 2005. It was a test chip based on the ARMv6 instruction set architecture, comprising four ARM11 processors running with cache coherence and made by NEC using a generic 130-nm manufacturing process.

By: DocMemory
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