Earlier this year, the company announced an upgraded version called Cortex-A17, which it says should offer better efficiency and 60 percent more performance than the Cortex-A9. (Thus far, only MediaTek has announced a phone processor and Realtek a TV processor using the A17.) ARM believes the A17 is the last of its 32-bit designs, and is meant to have a long life, in applications such as TVs and c