ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor.
The new ARM Cortex-A72 is also 75 percent more energy efficient and is slated to launch late 2015 or early 2016.
Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s VP of marketing in the CPU Group, says that the A72 chip design has been released to licensees, so that it will be up to the licensees when they will manufacture the chips for use in mobile devices. Ten licensees have committed to creating chips based on the Cortex-A72 architecture, including HiSilicon, MediaTek, and Rockchip.
Though ARM executives are designing the new ARM Cortex-A72 for mobile phones, the performance improvements, thinness of design, and battery efficiency will make the chip suitable for use in other form factors as well, including tablets and laptops.
Performance
The ARM Cortex-A72 utilizes a TSMC’s 16nm FinFET processor and is scalable to higher frequencies for a variety of different form factor designs.
The chip boasts a new CoreLink CCI-500 interconnect that delivers up to …read more
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