Chipmaker Marvell claims it has developed the industry's first quad-core ARM processor. The unnamed CPU apparently uses the same architecture as the company's recently announced Armada 600 and it can be clocked at more than 1GHz.

The outfit plans to market the new processor as a consumer and gaming solution, but it's still a bit vague and it hasn't revealed much in terms of projected performance, pricing or availability dates for that matter.

Quad core in a $200 smartbook anyone?