Computers-Plus

Fusion Summit ARM has joined forcing with AMD to promote what they call “heterogeneous computing”.

ARM Fellow and vice president of technology Jem Davies took the stage on Tuesday at AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit, insisting that the two chip designers share a vision of the computing future.

“It may seem strange that AMD have invited someone from ARM to come along and talk to you today about this…And, indeed, in some ways it is,” Davies told his keynote audience on Tuesday at the Summit in Bellevue, Washington. “[But] there is great agreement between ARM and AMD.

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IBM Microelectronics – the chip designing and wafer baking division of the IT giant – has inked a deal with ARM Holdings to help make sure those who license ARM chips have the processes and fabs to make them.

ARM Holdings has been collaborating with IBM Microelectronics since 2008, and it has used IBM’s 32 nanometer and 28 nanometer process nodes to bake 11 test chips to give to licenses of the Cortex family of ARM chips. More recently, ARM has used IBM’s 32 nanometer high-K metal gate processes to etch a complete dual-core Cortex-A9 chip. ARM

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No one knows for certain what Microsoft plans on doing with its recently acquired ARM architectural license. However, there are a number of likely possibilities, including a new generation of processors designed for smartphones, tablets and even game consoles.

As expected, both ARM and Microsoft have remained rather tight-lipped over the lucrative deal.

Indeed, ARM spokesperson Antonio Viana told TG Daily that he viewed the agreement as an affirmation, or “extension” of the robust 14-year relationship between the two companies.

“Microsoft currently supports several operating systems based on ARM architecture.

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