Market Insight

Will Applications Processors Ever Be De-ARMed?

Author: Peter Cooney, Practice Director, Semiconductors

Published: 01 Feb 2011

ARM continued to dominate the mobile handset market in 2010 with 100% of the smartphone applications processor market. However, both x86 and MIPS-based applications processors are expected to start shipping in smartphones from 2011 onwards.

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