Heralding the advent of smarter, cheaper, and less energy-demanding smartphones, ARM has announced its newest microprocessor that will be the brains of smartphones and various other other gadgets. ARM
designs microprocessors that are licensed by chip makers, who customize them and put them into their gadgets where low power consumption is important. The company's designs are used in most cell
phones and have been used in 15 billion devices in the past few decades. ARM hopes to ship another 15 billion in four years, and the new chip will be important in that quest. The new Cortex-A5
microprocessor will have better performance than ARM's fastest ARM11 microprocessors, but it will consume less battery power than its high-volume ARM9 chips.
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