Panel: ARM to dominate consumer apps

Consumerization of apps will be dominated by #ARM. Hear what ARM CEO & Freescale discussed at #FTF2012

SAN ANTONIO—Vendors defended the mass migration to ARM cores for their low-power, broad spectrum of performance levels and more economical software here at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Tuesday (June 19). Freescale Senior Vice President Henri Richard's annual FTF panel discussion included ARM CEO Warren East, Tony Belkin, a director at medical-device maker director at Hospira Inc. (Lake Forest, Ill.), Greg Crouch, embedded systems business director at National Instruments Corp. (Austin, Texas) and Jeremy Hammer, chief technology officer at consumer electronics firm Ceton Corp. (Kirkland, Wash.) "Apps today are being consumerized," said Freescale's Richard. "They are doing all the things that were previously being done by industrial and professional apps, but now they are doing it for consumers at a price point is that is way lower." According to the panelists, this ...

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