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OHM Co., Ltd. has licensed the ultra low-power ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor in order to accelerate developing products in the growing markets such as digital appliances, automotive, energy saving, and medical healthcare applications. Combining ROHM’s analog technologies and ARM’s ultra low-power technologies enable realizing intelligent devices. The Cortex-M0 processor is the smallest, lowest power and most energy efficient ARM processor available and is therefore ideal for these applications.

The company is the first public licensee of the Cortex-M0 processor in Japan.

In conjunction with their annual Google I/O event, Google has announced the next release of the Android 2.2 platform. This latest release includes a large number of significant enhancements that further exploit the underlying ARM® architecture to improve performance and functionality. The latest release includes Google’s new Dalvik Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler that generates native Thumb®-2 code. The new ARM targeted JIT technology coupled with the code density advantages of the Thumb-2 instruction set provides a significant performance boost to the Dalvik Java application framework, resulting in improved application performance of up to two to five times and therefore even greater battery life.