British chip designer ARM on Tuesday launched its first 64-bit processors to power the next generation of smartphones and tablets and offer low-energy solutions for servers.<\/p>\n
The Cambridge-based company, whose technology is in Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S3, said its latest blueprints would deliver three times today’s processing power using the same amount of energy.<\/p>\n
The move to 64-bit architecture, from ARM’s current 32-bit designs, will give ARM-based chips increased processing power but retain the energy efficiency central to its technology, the company said.<\/p>\n
ARM’s processor division marketing VP Noel Hurley said demand for more power came from the proliferation of data driven by smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n
“When we are looking at ‘superphones’ and tablets, the consumer is having to deal with much more data, particularly if they start to originate material on these devices,” he said.<\/p>\n
ARM, which dominates the smartphone processor market, has started to make inroads into server markets, a stronghold of its rival Intel.<\/p>\n
Advanced Micro Devices Inc said on Monday it would start making ARM-based processors for servers as well as x86 architecture.<\/p>\n
Licensees of ARM’s new 64-bit Cortex A-50 series include AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics, the company said, and the first chips are expected to ship in 2014.<\/p>\n
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