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ARM is to show its first 32nm high-K metal gate processor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
"The Cortex processor core is built with ARM physical IP on a test chip from the IBM Common Platform ," said ARM. "ARM Partners will have access to the technology in 2009, with full production release in early 2010."
The Common Platform is bulk CMOS process technology jointly developed by IBM, Chartered, and Samsung.
The ARM development follows nine months of collaboration between it and the Common Platform to processors, starting with the Cortex-A9, on the 32/28nm process.
"This silicon proof is a key step in our roadmap to demonstrate the technical synergy between ARM Physical IP and the Common Platform," said Ian Drew, v-p marketing, ARM.
Alongside the processor core are test structures "targeted at validating key technologies", said ARM. "We will develop and license an IP design platform including logic, memory and interface products."
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