StrongARM最早起源于迪吉多公司与安谋国际科技公司的合作案,目标是要创造一个速度更快的ARM 处理器。它针对于需要高端表现但是低耗能的嵌入式设备而设计,在 233 MHz 的频率下,这颗 CPU 只消耗一瓦特的电能(后来的芯片消耗得更少)。主要针对于个人数字助理(PDA)与数字视频转换盒(Set Top Box)等设备的市场。
The StrongARM is a family of computer microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment Corporation and manufactured in the late 1990s which implemented the ARM v4 instruction set architecture. It was later sold to Intel in 1997, who continued to manufacture it before replacing it with the XScale in the early 2000s.