At the Big Bang Fair, March 15th at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, the CUBESTORMER 3 robot will attempt to break the Guinness World Records title for solving a Rubik’s Cube. CUBESTORMER 3 uses ARM processor technology and has started final testing. The current record of 5.27 seconds was set two years ago by its predecessor, CubeStormer II.

Providing developers with a free-to-use professional tool suite for the Infineon XMC1000 microcontroller series, Arm has revealed that Infineon has licensed the Keil Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK) Silicon Vendor Edition. Based on Keil MDK Version 5, the MDK for Infineon XMC1000 includes the genuine ARM C/C++ Compiler, the CMSIS-RTOS RTX Kernel and the µVision IDE/Debugger.

Aiming to support electronics and computer engineering courses, ARM have announced that it has started shipping its ‘Lab-in-a-Box’ (LiB) with its partners to higher educational institutions around the globe. The LiB contains ARM-based technology and high quality, rigorous training materials that support electronics and computer engineering courses.

ARM today announced an enhanced suite of higher performance and more energy-efficient products specifically designed for the rapidly growing mid-range mobile and consumer electronics markets. The suite, comprised of processor, graphics processor and physical IP, is an update to ARM’s mid-range IP offering targeting devices for production in 2015 and beyond. The combination of the ARM Cortex-A17 processor and the ARM Mali-T720 GPU gives an e...

A platform standard for ARMv8-A based (64-bit) servers has been launched thanks to a collaborative development involving leading companies and manufacturers. The ARM ‘Server Base System Architecture’ (SBSA) specification has had input and support from software companies such as Canonical, Citrix, Linaro, Microsoft, Red Hat and SUSE, and OEMs including Dell and HP along with a broad set of silicon partners.  

STMicroelectronics has joined the ARM mbed Project, which will give developers using ST’s STM32 microcontroller range (which are based on the ARM Cortex-M processor series) free access to the mbed software, development tools and online collaboration platform. This enables them to realise their own visions for the new wave of intelligent electronics products.

The ARM Compiler Qualification Kit, a documentation package specifically designed to help developers achieve certification against safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262, has been unveiled today by ARM. Providing evidence of the robustness and maturity of the ARM Compiler toolchain, the kit can save months of effort for users who would otherwise have to create their own evidence for justifying their toolchain selection.  

Details of the new ARMv8-R architecture for real-time embedded processors has been released today by ARM. For use in automotive electronics and other integrated safety and control applications, the ARMv8-R architecture builds on the rich heritage of the 32-bit ARMv7-R architecture used for the company’s market-leading Cortex-R series of real time processors and complements the ARMv8-A architecture announced in 2011.

ARM announces work is underway to transform its headquarters into a hub for its partners’ Internet of Things technologies. ARM and its partners won £800,000 in a competitive funding call from the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency, to deploy network technology and over 600 connected sensors across its premises in Cambridge. All of these connected sensors are controlled by smart ARM-technology based chips. The project will ...

Entropic has licensed the ARM Mali-400 and Mali-450 Graphics Processing Unit technology and has also entered into a new license agreement for the Cortex-R5 processor. The strengthened partnership will enable Entropic to provide more advanced media and connectivity processing to its customers across the connected home ecosystem, from manufacturers of set-top boxes and CE devices to makers of home networking solutions.

ARM has entered into a multi-year agreement with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard Edition for ARM 32-bit platforms and to add Java SE support for ARMv8 64-bit platforms. Focused on delivering throughput and efficient scalability for ARM-based multi-core systems, this agreement reflects the increasing applicability of the combination of ARM and Oracle technology in server and network infrastructure.

Fujitsu Semiconductor and ARM today announced a licensing agreement that enables Fujitsu Semiconductor to release a system on chip solution which takes advantage of the benefits of ARM big.LITTLE technology and ARM Mali-T624 graphics processing.

ARM, in collaboration with Renesas Electronics, has introduced a free starter kit based on ARMs flagship suite of software development tools, targeting evaluation and initial software development on the new Renesas ARM Cortex-A9 processor-based RZ/A1 group MPUs

ARM announced an optimized IP solution designed to power the 580 million mid-range mobile devices expected over the next two years. The mid-range market is projected to exceed the number of premium smartphones and tablets beginning in 2015.

In conjunction with the launch of the ARM Cortex-A12 processor, ARM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced new power, performance and cost-optimized POP technology offerings for the ARM Cortex-A12 and Cortex-A7 processors for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28nm-SLP High-K Metal Gate process technology.

ARM today announced, at DAC 2013, the AMBA 5 CHI specification which will enable ARM Cortex-A50 series processors to work together in high-performance, coherent processing “hubs”, and to deliver the high data rates that are common in Enterprise markets, such as servers and networking.

ARM announced that LG Electronics has licensed the next generation of ARM Cortex-A50 series of central processing unit solutions and the next generation of ARM Mali graphics processing units. This agreement means that LG Electronics will have access to ARM’s highest-performing CPU and GPU solutions to create market-leading technology.

Energy Micro has been selected by ARM to help extend its long-running university program through a focus on the ARM Cortex-M series processors. ARM has chosen Energy Micro to be one of its first partners in this new initiative in recognition of Energy Micro’s strong commitment to the ARM Cortex architecture and the training, tools and support it already offers to its customers.

ARM has extended the scope of the ARM Development Studio 5 Community Edition to provide a fully featured, industry standard, and free-to-use software development environment for ARM Embedded Linux applications.

ARM has announced a new licensing model to enable broader access to big.LITTLE processing technology for ARM partners. By using multiple processors that are developed for different energy and performance budgets, big.LITTLE provides optimum performance and maximum efficiency.