ARM and Texas Instruments (TI) today announced that TI is the first company to partner with ARM in the conception and definition of the next generation ARM Cortex-A series processor core (codenamed “Eagle”) to be launched later this year. TI intends to use the new processor to further strengthen and extend its future OMAP platform offerings.

According to TI, the company formally engaged with ARM on this project in June 2009, establishing an advanced lead partnership. During this time, TI leveraged its low power, system-on-chip (SoC) platform expertise with ARM to advance the processor core’s definition. This engagement accelerates TI’s ability to get to market early with high-performance OMAP products based on the new ARM processor core, following up on its popular OMAP 4 platform that uses the powerful Cortex-A9 processor core and will ship later this year.

“Our position as ARM’s advanced lead partner for its next-generation Cortex-A series processor core underscores TI’s unwavering commitment to helping customers achieve success in the competitive mobile world,” said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president, OMAP platform business unit TI. “We are thrilled to know that our customers will be the first to leverage the new ARM processor core’s far-reaching innovations via our industry-leading OMAP products. Successful mobile industry achievements revolve around the ‘high-performance, low-power’ mantra, and we believe the results of our collaborative effort echo the importance of this must-have balance.”

Chips based on ARM Cortex-A series processor core should come to the market by end of 2011 and device based on the new processors should come in early 2012.