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ARM Cortex-A12 and Cortex-A17 chips are identical

When Chinese chip maker Rockchip launched its RK3288 processor earlier this year there was some confusion about whether it was based on ARM Cortex-A12 or Cortex-A17 designs. It turns out it doesn’t matter: ARM says that while the two types of chips were originally designed to offer different performance levels, but due to demand for better […]

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Rockchip RK3288 demo: Chromium OS TV box, Android tablets with 8-second boot

Rockchip’s RK3288 processor is starting to show up in Android-powered tablets and TV boxes. Now Rockchip is also showing off a prototype of Chromium OS running on a system with its new ARM Cortex-A17 quad-core processor. Chromium OS is the open source version of Google’s Chrome operating system. Rockchip says the ARM Cortex-A17 processor offers strong […]

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ARM Cortex-A17 CPU, Mali-T720 GPU coming to mid-range devices in 2015

Low power chip designer ARM is taking aim at the mid-range mobile device market with its latest CPU and graphics technology. The company’s ARM Cortex-A17 processor designs and Mali-T720 graphics technology and Mali-V500 video processor should all be ready to go by 2015. ARM doesn’t make its own chips, but instead licenses its technology to […]