14 DAY TRIAL // ARM is involved in many partnerships, most of them having to do with mobile devices, since phones are where it started off and became dominant, but a new one never hurts, so the company signed it.
There are many deals that ARM has made over the past couple of years, many that do not fit with the previous policy.
This one with eSilicon Corporation could be the closest thing to a neutral ground in a while.
Until a couple of years back, ARM barely wanted to venture beyond the wide confines of the mobile phone market.
When it realized that, though wide, the confines were still confines, ARM Holdings figured it would be a good idea to enter the PC and server market.
Many months and a 64-bit supporting architecture later, the corporation is ready to seriously go up against Intel and AMD.
The new deal with eSilicon is, for once, something that won't tip the balance neither one way nor the other, since it covers customers from communications, computer, consumer and industrial segments, not just one market.
As part of a multi-year licensing agreement, ARM's intellectual property will be available to eSilicon for design and manufacturing purposes. That means everything up to and including Cortex processors, MALI GPUs, CoreSight on-chip debut and trace IP, etc.
Truth be told, this pact is actually a continuation of a collaboration that has been going on for ten years.
"The huge and diverse ARM ecosystem is key to enabling innovation throughout the industry. Collaborating with partners like eSilicon enables customers to reduce risk and time to market by incorporating ARM IP that has been proven in a wide range of products and across multiple process nodes," said Noel Hurley, ARM vice president, marketing and strategy, processor division.
"ARM has been working with eSilicon since 2002 and we are delighted to expand that relationship with this multi-year agreement."