Tuesday, May 31, 2011
ARM Holdings hopes to share Intel's dominance of the mobile PC market and have its processors in more than half of all mobile PCs sold in 2015. The Cambridge, UK-based company, which licenses its technology as intellectual property rather than manufacturing its own CPUs, is betting that growing consumer interest in portable computers such as tablets will translate into a big jump in its market share.
"Today we have about 10 percent market share [in mobile PCs]. By the end of 2011 we believe we will have about 15 percent of that market share as tablets grow," ARM president Tudor Brown said during a news conference at the Computex trade show in Taipei, according to PC World. "By 2015, we expect that to be over 50 percent of the mobile PC market."
In order to maintain its lead in the tablet market and build on its current success, ARM will have to continue developing more advanced processors. The company's next processor design, the Cortex A15, promises a five-times performance improvement over current smartphone processors while drawing about the same amount of energy, the company said when the design was announced in September 2010. ARM has licensed its latest Cortex A15 patents to several chip vendors, products for which are expected to arrive in late 2011 and commercial chip available early 2012.
By: DocMemory
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