Samsung Electronics Corp. at the Microprocessor Forum here today revealed details of what the company claims is the first 1.2-GHz implementation of an ARM processor core.
Jin Cheon Kim, director of the processor architecture lab at Samsung, said the core, code named Halla after the highest mountain in South Korea, is pin compatible with the ARM1020E, but provides significant performance advancement beyond that core or the ARM-based XScale from Intel Corp.
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