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The ARM computing architecture has rocketed in popularity since the company started licensing its design in 1990. It has become a standard for modern digital devices from cell phones to tablets, shipped in billions of devices. The popularity of ARM has been a result of high performance coupled with leading power efficiency and low costs.
How ARM and Canonical work together
Since 2008, ARM and Canonical have worked together delivering ARM processor specifications support for the Ubuntu platform across different classes of devices. Work has focused on Cortex A8, A9 and now A15-like processors with ARM and Canonical working together to ensure great ARM architecture support in Ubuntu and the Linux Kernel. An example of this partnership is Canonical’s involvement and commitment to making the Linaro initiative successful.
This work has led to innovators like Texas Instruments, Marvell and Freescale partnering with Canonical to provide specific System on a Chip (SoC) Ubuntu releases.
Ubuntu in connected screens
We live in a world of increasingly connected screens. Whether those screens are smartphones, tablets, or other embedded systems, the processor at the heart of those connected screens are ARM-based.
Ubuntu Core is a sub-set of Ubuntu technologies ideally suited for the next generation of connected screens where Internet connectivity is key. It takes advantage of the extensive hardware, architecture and component certification work done by Canonical so that manufacturers can build great experiences on set-top boxes, in-vehicle infotainment systems and digital devices for the home.
Ubuntu Core builds with both ARM and x86 support will be available from September 2011. Download the Ubuntu Core datasheet or visit http://www.canonical.com/engineering-services/ubuntu-core.
Enterprise solutions
ARM processors are already a key presence in the data centre powering devices such as networking routers and storage controllers. With the availability of higher performance, multi-core capable processor cores, the breadth of applications that can be addressed by ARM technologies is broadened, requiring advanced server-capable operating systems.
ARM and Canonical are working together to make sure that ARM-based systems in the data centre can use Ubuntu Server to power advanced workloads such as distributed data processing or cloud infrastructure.
The 11.10 Ubuntu Server on ARM technology preview is now available for download.
