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ARM Profiler for Symbian OS: ARM and Symbian Collaborate to Enable
Feature-Rich, Low-Power Advanced Mobile Applications 21 October 2008

*ARM Profiler for Symbian OS empowers developers to deliver high
performance and reduced power consumption for Symbian OS-based mobile
phones*

*CAMBRIDGE**AND LONDON, UK – Oct. 21, 2008 –* ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq:
ARMH)] and Symbian Limited today announced at the Symbian Smartphone Show
in London, ARM® Profiler <http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RVP.html>
for Symbian OS™. As part of the recently-launched RealView® Development
Suite 4.0 Professional <http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RVDSPro.html>,
the ARM Profiler enables developers of mobile phone applications running on
Symbian OS to add enhanced features and reduce power consumption. Developers
can quickly and accurately target their optimizations with immediate
feedback on actual application performance and with the rapid
identification of bottlenecks across a broad range of performance
measurements, bringing their applications to market faster and with lower
risk.

“Consumers expect mobile phone applications to deliver advanced features,
with the best possible performance and minimal power consumption,” said
Mike Whittingham, vice president of Ecosystem Development, Symbian.
“Developers of complex mobile applications have come to expect the level of
power management and performance optimization found within Symbian OS. The
new ARM Profiler provides an analysis environment that enables developers
to maximize the performance and power efficiency of their applications, on
ARM technology-based mobile phones.”

The industry-leading capabilities of the ARM Profiler for Symbian OS build
upon ARM’s trusted profiling technology which enables non-intrusive, long
duration application profiling on hardware or system models; code coverage
information, even when source code is unavailable; and the ability to
profile fully optimized software. New benefits for developers using the ARM
Profiler include:

- The ability to profile applications running on Symbian OS
- Profile-driven compilation for automatic code optimization, based on
runtime performance
- Instruction trace replay for a deeper understanding of application
performance

Many profiling tools require code annotation or system instrumentation,
which do not provide an accurate representation of application performance
or allow profiling capabilities only for very short durations due to buffer
limitations. ARM Profiler surpasses these limitations with the ability to
analyze fully optimized images, analyze for unlimited durations using the
streaming trace feature in RealView Trace 2 and profile the instructions
executing on the real time system models from ARM. In addition, with the
capacity to analyze the applications running on Symbian OS, engineers can
now obtain deeper insight into how applications are affected by system
resources and shared libraries for a better understanding of how
applications perform as part of a complex system.

“Symbian and ARM have once again collaborated to deliver the very best
power and performance advantages for customers using Symbian’s
industry-leading mobile operating system,” said John Cornish, vice
president and general manager, System Design Division, ARM. “The innovative
features of the ARM Profiler build upon ARM’s established technology to
provide unparalleled trace and optimization capabilities, significantly
streamlining the development process for next-generation mobile
applications running on Symbian OS.”


*Availability*ARM Profiler for Symbian OS is available now as part of the ARM
RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional
<http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RVDSPro.html> .


*About Symbian Limited*Symbian is a software licensing company that
develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system
for mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers
and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading
companies across the mobile industry. During Q2 2008, 19.6 million Symbian
mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators,
bringing the total number of units shipped up to 30 June 2008 to 226
million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the
United States, United Kingdom, Asia (India, P.R. China, and Korea) and
Japan. For more information, please visit www.symbian.com.


*About ARM*ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced
digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment
solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM’s
comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors,
graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories,
high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools.
Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and
maintenance, and the company’s broad Partner community, they provide a
total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for
leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at
http://www.arm.com.

*ENDS*

ARM and RealView are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands
or product names are the property of their respective holders. “ARM” is
used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and
the regional subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan
Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium
N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded
Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS.

*SYMBIAN MEDIA* CONTACTS


*Global*Karen Hamblen
Symbian Press Office
[phone]
***@symbian.com


*UK*Katie Buckett
Brands2Life
[phone]
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*US*Valerie Breslow
V. Breslow Communications
[phone]
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*Japan*Yukari Majima
Burson-Marsteller
[phone]
***@bm.com


*China*Joy Tian
Edelman China
[phone] x 247
***@edelman.com

*ARM PRESS OFFICE: [phone]*
Michelle Spencer
ARM
[phone]
***@arm.comErik Ploof
ARM
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Symbian First To Provide Native Support for ARMv6 Architecture 02 December
2002

*LONDON, UK, AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Dec. 2, 2002* –Symbian Ltd, developer of
Symbian OS, a de facto industry standard operating system for advanced
mobile phones, and ARM [(LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading
provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today
announced Symbian's native support for the ARMv6 architecture in Symbian OS.

Symbian and ARM have a long-term, strategic partnership that aims to drive
development of innovative solutions for mobile devices. The companies
collaborated for more than a year to enable concurrent development of the
ARMv6 architecture and future versions of Symbian OS. This collaboration
has resulted in Symbian's development of a highly optimized system OS
solution. Utilizing the physically addressed caches in the ARM1136J-S™ core
<http://www.arm.com/products/processors/classic/arm11/arm1136.php> reduces
Symbian OS context switch times, which provides better memory management
performance and reduced power consumption through eliminating forced cache
flushing by the operating system – both of which are critical aspects for
mobile devices.

"Because Symbian OS has been licensed by the world's leading mobile phone
manufacturers, Symbian has unique insight into the industry's future
requirements. Symbian and ARM work in strategic partnership to deliver
solutions which meet those requirements," said David Wood, executive vice
president of Partnering, Evangelism & Research, Symbian. "The ARMv6
architecture-based Symbian OS solution improves essential power and memory
performance whilst also enabling the enhanced wireless multi-media
capabilities that Symbian OS licensees want to build into their future
products."

ARM recently introduced its first ARMv6 architecture-based solutions, the
ARM1136J-S core, which is included in the ARM11™ PrimeXsys™ Platform. (See
separate press releases
ARM Sets Performance Standard with Two New ARM11
Cores...ARM Launches New ARM11 PrimeXsys Platform
Oct. 14, 2002). Texas
Instruments has licensed both of the new ARM11 cores from ARM, for its
next-generation OMAP microprocessors and wireless chipsets.

"The Symbian OS coupled with TI's ARM® core-based OMAP™ platform provides
wireless manufacturers and application developers with the performance and
power efficiency required to deliver advanced multimedia applications,"
said Alain Mutricy, TI vice president and OMAP Platform general manager.
"We are committed to working closely with Symbian and ARM to ensure that
future OMAP processors that leverage the new ARM11 cores are highly
optimized for the Symbian OS."

"The combination of an ARM11 PrimeXsys Platform using the ARMv6
architecture and the Symbian OS, will provide a rich multimedia experience
for mobile phone users," said Mary Inglis, director, Operating Systems
Business Development, ARM. "Writing applications for Symbian OS which
utilize the new multimedia SIMD instructions in the ARMv6 architecture,
will allow applications developer to create more compelling content for a
given clock speed without compromising battery life".

Symbian OS products powered by microprocessors based on the ARM1136J-S core
and the ARM1136JF-S™ core are expected to come to market in 2004.

*About ARM*

ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC
microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance,
low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-on-chip
designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides
comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's
microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such
markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital
consumer and embedded solutions.


*About Symbian *Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the de facto
industry standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian
has licensed Symbian OS to the world's top handset manufacturers including
Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. In total, Symbian OS
licensees account for more than 80 percent of worldwide mobile phone sales.

Symbian's mission is to create a mass market for Symbian OS mobile phones
by enabling Symbian OS licensees to build winning products. Publicly
announced products based on Symbian OS include the SonyEricsson P800
Smartphone, Nokia 7650, 3650, N-gage.

For more information, please go to www.symbian.com

*ENDS*

ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. ARM11, ARM1136J-S,
ARM1136JF-S and PrimeXsys are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands
or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is
used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its
operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM
KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM China.

http://licensing.symbian.org/

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