ARM to unveil three new Cortex processors this year

ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) plans to launch three additions to its Cortex family of processor cores during 2010. The cores, codenamed Eagle, Heron and Merlin, all have lead licensing customers and deliveries of intellectual property will start either in 2010 or early in 2011 depending on the core, said Warren East, chief executive officer of ARM.

Eagle sits within the high-performance Cortex A-class, Heron sits within the embedded and real-time Cortex R-class and Merlin is a novel core for ARM's Cortex-M grouping.