Atom buster
By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Monday, 29 September 2008
A BUNCH OF CHIP firms have banded together in a move that should get mighty Intel a bit hot under the collar. It's called the Common Platform and the firms involved are IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Samsung Electronics and ARM. And their aim is to develop a 32nm and 28nm Systems-on-a-Chip design "platform" based on high-k metal-gate (HKMG) technology. ARM is particularly miffed with Intel and its hype of the wee Atom chip. The firm designs chips which have tipped up in close to a billion mobile devices and many of these are capable of accessing the Interweb. Intel has been running a smear campaign against ARM without naming the outfit directly. But when Intel says "the Internet runs on our architecture," it basically means "ARM has to faff about a bit to get Flash working on its devices." So, getting on the front foot, ARM has announced it will develop and license a design platform of physical intellectual property including logic, memory and interface products for the Common Platform technology in alliance with its new mates IBM, Chartered and Samsung.
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