Now the company is working on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a frequency of 2GHz. It is assumed that this processor will be used in future smartphones, but its application is not restricted to these devices: a producer plans to put this processor on the market netbooks and a new market smartbook. To make it easier for developers of various devices of their task, ARM is developing a two fundamentally different ways Cortex-A9 MPCore, based on 40 nm process technology-G TSMC, which will enable the manufacture of chips with a rated core 2GHz or more.

Presumably, the forthcoming dual-core Cortex-A9 will have no more than 7W power consumption, operating systems support SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), will have up to 8MB of L2 cache and device manufacturers will be supplied with all scripts, vectors and libraries needed for the integration of the chip in the final device.

Since the new ARM processors do not apply to x86 processors, for devices with Cortex-A9 will not be able to install Windows family of operating systems, but they will work with Android and a number of other operating systems with open source software that allow the use of these processors to create a netbook based on Linux, which will compete with the netbooks on the basis of processor Intel Atom.