Marvell has unveiled, for CES, its first quadcore processor based on ARM cores and instruction set.
The device is aimed at high end multimedia systems such as HDTV set-tops and 3D graphics engines.
It is based on the same CPU architecture as the Marvell ARMADA 500 processors, and those use an ARM v7 CPU core running up to 1.2 GHz.
It is another important milestone for ARM's multicore strategy as it bids to grow its involvement in the multimedia chipset market which is dominated by HDTV decoders and high end graphics engines.
As well as the performance of four 1.2GHz ARM processors there are also multiple vector floating point v3 units and 512KB L2 cache and 1080p video decode.
"Introducing our quadcore technology to the world represents a pivotal moment in CPU development for the consumer electronics industry," said Ms. Weili Dai, Marvell's co-founder and v-p and general manager of Marvell Semiconductor's Consumer and Computing Business Unit.
"Today's media-rich consumer applications are already pushing the limits," said Weili Dai.