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Guardian(UK): ARM chip offers cheaper smartphones with longer battery life by 2013

New design offers five times more battery life while 'Big.LITTLE' chip pairing could extend smartphones' power by 70%

The Cambridge chip design company ARM has unveiled a chip design that it say uses could mean cheaper smartphones with battery lives five times longer by 2013.

It also thinks they will enable cheaper devices, with smartphones easily costing less than $100 (£60) by that time.

Already Broadcom, Compal, Freescale, HiSilicon, LG Electronics, Linaro, OK Labs, QNX, Redbend, Samsung, Sprint, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have publicly signed up to support the technologies. ARM could not say whether Apple, which has a licence to build chips using the ARM architecture and deploys them in its iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, had signed to use it.

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