Monday, ARM (ARM.L, ARMH) said it signed a major licensing agreement for the ARM Cortex -A9 MPCore multicore processor with Broadcom Corp. (BRCM).
In addition to the Cortex-A9 processor, ARM said that the agreement included ARM NEON SIMD or Single Instruction, Multiple Data technology for the ARM Cortex-A series processors, designed to provide acceleration for advanced, feature-rich multimedia, gaming and compute intensive applications.
"This licensing agreement extends our ARM processor portfolio. The flexibility and scalability of the Cortex-A9 processor enable us to optimize development costs by addressing the requirements of wireless applications from a common core platform," said Nambi Seshadri, VP and CTO, Mobile Platforms and Wireless Connectivity Division, Broadcom Corporation.
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