ARM takes on the mighty Atom

摘要

British chip designer ARM plans to go head-to-head with Intel with a revised version of its A9 processor core that it claims is much faster or more power-efficient than the US giant's Atom, which is used in many netbooks.rnWith the Osprey, a dual-core version of the A9, ARM has chosen to aim for higher-power technologies like TSMC's 40nm general-purpose (40G) process, instead of designing for low-power process technologies as it has with its cellphone-oriented processors.