LSI expands licensing deal with ARM

LONDON – Networking and storage chip company LSI Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.) has announced an expansion of strategic relationship with processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc.

Under the agreement LSI is gaining access to the family of ARM processor cores, including the Cortex-A15 with virtualization support and future ARM processors. These are likely to include 64-bit designs covered by the ARMv8 instruction set architecture, although this was not explicitly mentioned.

LSI also gains access to the on-chip interconnect technology, including the CoreLink cache coherent bus technology for use with multicore chips.

"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," said Mike Inglis, executive vice president of ARM's processor division, in a statement.


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