The race to faster netbooks and smartphones is making more advanced mobile applications possible…
BARCELONA—ARM, the company that has designed most of the processors in mobile phones, on Monday announced a new, low-cost processor called "Sparrow" at the Mobile World Congress trade show. The company said it is aiming to conquer the netbook market with its multi-core Cortex A9 architecture.
Sparrow is a small, inexpensive chip which shares its instruction set with ARM's top-of-the-line Cortex A8 product, the chip used by the Palm Pre. While one Sparrow chip has about the power of an existing ARM11 (the chip in Apple's iPhone and other leading smartphones), Sparrow can also be used in a multi-core setup to multiply performance.
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