Marvell announced what it claimed is “the world’s first 1.5GHz tri-core application processor”, called ARMADA, targeting smartphones and tablet devices. The product includes “three high performance, Marvell-designed, ARM compliant CPU cores, operating as the world’s first commercially available heterogeneous, multi-core applications processor. Several other vendors are working on dual-core device processors, and 1.5GHz clock speeds are also on the roadmap.