The smart ARM processor crossed 10 billion in count in mobile device market

ARM has announced its partners have shipped 10 billion ARM powered processors to the mobile device market. The analysts earlier were counting per capita of transistors but now with the processor getting shipped in billions, the benchmarks might change form transistors to processors. For the world of approximately six billion people, it's 1.67 ARM processors per every human being.

ARM is changing the mobile device market, in same way what Intel has done PC and Laptop market. The only difference is ARM only sells IP, any semiconductor company can license this IP and makes its own versions of processors and SoCs. ARM's early version ARM7 family of processors had a great impact; even now ARM7 devices are active. ARM's latest Cortex family of processors is now the heart of many latest handsets, Netbooks and Hybrid PCs.

The average mobile phone shipped in 2008 had approximately two ARM technology-based processors. More complex Smartphones often have four or five; functioning not only as application processors, but also in the modem, WLAN, GPS, SIM, camera module and Bluetooth ICs. ARM's partnership of more than 500 Connected Community members includes 200 silicon Partners who shipped 126 ARM Powered chips per second last year, including the silicon in nearly every device on show at Mobile World Congress.

Even in career aspect, for embedded engineers lack of ARM expertise is a big big handicap.