I always enjoy attending ARM’s annual technology conference (now called
Techcon3)
to meet with the community of key technology providers that drive today’s hottest
new products and will help enable our mobile future.
The “cubed” in Techcon3 refers to focus in three key areas including
“Energy Efficiency”, “Internet Everywhere" and “MCU and Tools”. Some of the key
topics that really stood out during this conference were addressing the drive for
higher, energy-efficient performance, emerging internet and web browsing technologies,
the tremendous value and success of Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, innovations in user
interfaces and more sophisticated development tools.
Glimpses of the mobile future included a drive to 28/32 nm process technologies,
multi-core ARM / SMP, high-performance graphics, a future revolution in mobile memory
technologies that bring tremendous bandwidth at manageable power levels, momentum
of hypervisor solutions and the enabling of lower-tier handsets with the new
Cortex-A5 core.
TI had a strong presence at this conference, announcing
over 30 new ARM devices with the expansion of our
Stellaris product line and introducing our new
Sitara product line , presenting papers and product updates, participating in
panels and showcasing the some of the
latest products
based on TI devices. Many of the ARM partners also showcased their technologies
on TI platforms such as the very popular OMAP
Beagleboard and EVMs – so
TI products were very prominent reflecting our strong ecosystem support.
Did you know that TI is the leading ARM silicon partner, delivering over 5
billion chips ARM-based products out of a total 15 billion ARM shipments? This
amazing fact helps drive home the power of the TI-ARM relationship and the connected
community that helps us offer the broadest range of ARM-based products from $1 to
over 1 GHz, along with an impressive list of TI first-to-market successes with ARM
technologies.
If you didn’t attend the show, I recommend you check it out and consider for
next year. It really provides a good perspective on where the industry is going
with focus on the most pertinent topics that will help drive our mobile future.
You also get to see and play with a broad range of the latest
ARM-based gadgets which is always fun!
Posted
Oct 24 2009, 09:16 AM
by
Brian Carlson