LSI Expands Strategic Relationship With ARM

LSI Corporation announced an expansion of its strategic relationship with ARM Ltd., a provider of microprocessor intellectual property.

"Customers need high-performance, power-efficient solutions to help effectively manage the unprecedented growth in network traffic being driven by smartphones, tablets and cloud-based services, without impacting user experience," said Jeff Richardson, executive vice president and chief operating officer, LSI. "The integration of LSI’s leadership in SoC solutions with ARM’s strong ecosystem and leadership in power-efficient cores will lead to exciting new multicore-based solutions for our customers."

"We are pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with LSI and help them develop next-generation, differentiated solutions based on ARM technology," said Mike Inglis, executive vice president, processor division, ARM. "The powerful combination of ARM advanced IP and LSI’s leadership in SoC design will enable networking and storage OEMs to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient products to their customers."

The agreement will lead to new product solutions designed to address customer needs for accelerated performance as applications such as mobile video and cloud computing.

LSI will gain access to:

• The broad family of ARM processors, including the ARM Cortex-A15 processor with virtualization support and future ARM processors
• ARM on-chip interconnect technology, including CoreLink cache coherent interconnect system IP, for use in multi-core applications LSI Corporation designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks.

ARM designs technology for wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices.