With the ST, TI, Freescale and other semiconductor giants have introduced products based on ARM core, which means that ARM core has been more widely used in the MCU. ARM, a possible future situation of dominance, unless otherwise giant is committed to MCU kernel development, or ARM's position is difficult to shake. While other ARM core MCU is gradually eroded the market, but will not completely replace other core products in the market, some quite strong semiconductor companies have developed independent core strength, but at the moment are still remain in this low-end8-bit Chip research and development. ARM will later be extended to low-end product line to the field, which will gradually erode the low-end market.
ARM MCU with the industry's position in the gradual increase, also laid a signal to industry, that is, the gradual unification with the MCU core, will result in increasing industry concentration, product differentiation more to the less, whether MCU will rely on low price like the mobile phone price war to win market? Chip technology will indeed be difficult to have differences, but the MCU is not the ultimate manifestation of difference in the hardware, it will show peripheral and process differences. As in mobile phones, cell phone chip technology is not much difference, but flourishing in the software services, the future is by the MCU software to pull product differentiation.
Several semiconductor giant also look good ARM's market, have spent huge sums of money into the co-operation with ARM. For different areas and the needs of individual customers research ,they development to match the variety of products to seize market opportunities.
- ST announces that ARM support microprocessor family of SPEAr
The world's leading system-level chip maker STMicroelectronics (ST) announced the ARM ® Development Studio 5 (DS-5) software development tools support SPEAr300and SPEAr600 two series microprocessor (MPU).
STMicroelectronics SPEAr (Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture) embedded processor to provide a high level of computing performance and device interconnected function. SPEAr use of advanced low-power microprocessor HCMOS (high-speed CMOS) process, integration of one or two advanced ARM926EJ-S ™ processor core and memory interfaces, and having a connection, communication, security and feature rich audio and video IP modules can meet the high performance and low power consumption of different applications.
ARM DS-5 including an integrated tracking application and kernel space debugger, system-level evaluation, performance analyzer, real-time system simulator and compiler. The development tools allow engineers to easily drive the system for ARM-based Linux platform for development and optimization of the software stack, shorten the development cycle and testing the software to create high resource efficiency. Support SPEAr300 and SPEAr600 product line DS-5 is available in the market.
ARM Development Studio 5 is the latest important development tool of ST, service in engineers who are aims to development of Linux applications designed, ARM Development Studio 5 to market will further consolidate STMicroelectronics and ARM partnership.
- Texas Instruments stands out in the ARM core marke
Currently, MCU market can be described as turbulent, the new favorite around the ARM Cortex core of the competition has been heating up, Cortex-M3 processor core license number has nearly 30 clients. Not only in the core areas, the major semiconductor giants also possible to integrate more peripheral in order to attract users, such as USB OTG, Ethernet MAC, quadrature encoder, Mono Road, CAN, I2S, etc.
In this battle, Texas Instruments (TI) stand out in the market, launched 31 new ARM processor models, can provide customers from the cost as low as $ 1 to a rate of more than 1 GHz, highly scalable solutions, significantly expanding Embedded processor camp. The latest processor, including 29 Stellaris CortexTM-M3 microcontroller (MCU) and the ARM9 and Cortex-A8 based on the latest microprocessor technology (MPU) SitaraTM series's devices. Further strengthening the product benefited from TI camp Luminary Micro's recent acquisitions, the TI released as a single supplier of the industry's most extensive series of ARM processor technology has been further strengthened.
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