http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/ Engadget Comments for ARM and TSMC team up for tinier 20nm Cortex SOCs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/"We're not sure what this means for GlobalFoundries"
That ARM are buddies to lots of companies (except Intel)?
It's not really that different to the fact that ARM are friendly to other competing companies (TI with the OMAP, Apple with the A4, Qualcomm with Snapdragon, etc).
More friends == more customers == wider market.. why do you think the big I want a slice of the pie?]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Cake is a lie. There was no cake :(]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/
What all these have in common is that they're customers of ARM... it's ARM's architecture (Cortex A8) which powers all of these chips.]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Actually ARM is buddy with samsung who's buddy with Apple.]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/+1 = -8nm :-)]]>Jul 22nd 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/
ARM have been doing things differently for a LONG time (RISC vs CISC, selling designs not chips etc). Sometimes this different approach has paid off for them in performance, power consumption, mindshare of hardware and software companies etc, and sometimes not so much.

You could equally ask the question of why RISC chips have traditionally been a failure on the desktop (As an example of the falilure of RISC on the desktop, remember what happened to PowerPC / RISC macs.)

Sometimes the wind changes and companies are left scrambling to keep up. RISC is the big flavour of the month at the moment, with mobiles, tablets, Cell processors, and energy cost reductions for hosting and cloud installations.

I'm guessing intel were somewhat wrongfooted with the smartphone and tablet rise whilst their existing designs didn't address this newer market sector concerns. It takes a while to change direction and focus in some industries, though I'm sure they will continue to develop the atom stuff to be more competitive]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/
to my understanding ARM was successful because it provided better speed with less power usage compared to intel]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/ARM has always existed and the ARM architecture is by design and legacy (from it's professional applications) much more suitable than x86 in the mobile market (for now)

Intel just didn't see it coming because they were too busy milking the sh*t out of Desktop users...]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/same reason they dominate desktop processors - the Intel x86 architecture (and its at-the-hip link to Windows). Intel have been concentrating (and dominating) on that architecture. It isn't suitable for low-power processors.

Or in other words, how many processors do Intel make that can't run Windows? What proportion of their development effort goes on those processors? That's why.]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/
Pretty colours.]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/Jul 21st 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/arm-and-tsmc-team-up-for-tinier-20nm-cortex-socs/

Heh...]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:06AM