Arm Ltd says it will outline its next microprocessor core, the ARM10 in October at the Microprocessor Forum. The new chip core is believed to include floating point technology – a method of performing the heavy computational tasks needed to deal with graphics and sound. The company would not confirm whether the next core will support floating point technology. It currently only uses the computational method in a limited number of designs, including its existing co-processor used by Cirrus Logic for a chip built into network computers that runs multimedia applications. The SA-1500 multimedia StrongArm chip, now owned by Intel Corp, is also due to be detailed at the event (CI No 3,461)
