VUNET.com's John Leyden reports that Lucent Technologies has started shipping first silicon of a faster and lower power version of their ARM10 “system-on-chip” CPU core, which supports Linux . . .

“Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group has shipped the first silicon of the high-performance ARM10 microprocessor core, paving the way for the development of lower powered wireless products.”

“UK-based ARM's core for system-on-a-chip (SoC) integrated circuits significantly increases the performance of previous ARM cores, enabling the development of next-generation wireless and broadband infrastructure products. These would include wireless phones and personal digital assistants, wireless and broadband internet connectivity, internet routers and even high-end gaming devices.”

“Lucent is using its COM-1 (0.25 micron drawn) modular CMOS process to fabricate the ARM10 cores, and plans to migrate to the COM-2 (0.16 micron drawn) process later this year. Using 0.16 micron technology will enable processing of more than 400 MIPS (million instructions per second) at 1.5 volts and reduce power consumption to less than one watt.”

” . . . Lucent is currently sampling reference devices which will be available for evaluation using development cards from ARM later this year.”

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