ARM’s Sparrow multicore netbook processor will go on show for the first time this week at Mobile World Congress ‘09, according to Engadget.

The Sparrow is a Cortex A9 processor aimed at netbook makers and is a multi-core update to the Cortex A8. Speculation has it that the Sparrow could be the processor of choice for the next generation iPhones but on the netbook front, Toshiba, Pegatron and Wistron are all planning netbooks powered by the processor and will show them off at MWC ‘09.