ARM has seen Mindspeed license the Cortex-A9 MPCore processor for use in next generation networking platforms.
Mindspeed already uses ARM processors, and this new deal could be important in establishing the chip firm’s current generation Cortex technology in the multi-service network infrastructure market.
“The proposition 
of multiservice networking, combining all types of communications, including data, voice and video over a single packet cell-based infrastructure, is emerging as a strategically important issue for enterprise and public service provider infrastructures alike,” said Tom Medrek, Mindspeed’s senior v-p and general manager, multiservice access.
The Cortex-A9 MPCore processor licence builds on an existing collaboration between the two companies for a series of broadband gateway 
processors based on the ARM1136J-S processor.
“ARM was our logical partner for future development,” said Medrek.