#arm v8

British multinational semiconductor and software design company, ARM, will continue to supply Huawei with its chip technology after determining that its architecture is of UK origin. In a report by Reuters, ARM, a company owned by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, has learned that its ARM v8 and v9 architecture were determined to be of UK origin, following a comprehensive review. Back in May, ARM suspended its business with Huawei in compliance with the restrictions set by the U.S. Huawei's HiSilicon uses ARM's chip technology for its Kirin chipset. "Arm is actively communicating with department officials regarding any support of our partner HiSilicon, and we remain confident we are operating within the parameters of those guidelines," an ARM spokeswoman told Reuters via email. If you're familiar with the 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 that powers the Samsung Wave and Galaxy S including the new Archos Android tablets, then it's going to be easy to imagine what a dual Cortex-A15 running up to 2.5GHz would look like. Samsung also announced a few days ago that they're shipping their new dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 1GHz starting 4th quarter of this year. ARM's dual-core Cortex-A15 MPCore can reach clock speeds of up to 2.5GHz and should be available by 2012. Read more in our articles including "ARM to continue to supply Huawei with chip technology" and "ARM announces 2.5GHz Cortex-A15 MPCore".