Many major manufacturers of mobile processors for the foreseeable future are ready to move on the use of architecture ARMv8, which, in addition to standard improvements has the support of 64-bit instructions. ARMv8 will exist as standard large and small core Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53, as well as specific, processed by processor versions developers.
Meanwhile, ARMv7 architecture will not disappear into the depths of history and some time will be widely used. Moreover, ARM decided to release the reference microarchitecture Cortex-A17, which is expected to form the basis for making smartphones, tablets, in-car entertainment systems and televisions.
In comparison with the Cortex-A9, which has become widespread, Cortex-A17 offers a performance increase by up to 60%. In this new core can be combined with small Cortex-A7 in the concept big.LITTLE, may be as many last from two to four pieces. Configuration decisions will be determined depending on the particular application.
At the same time made the announcement ARM graphics core Mali-T720 - the first mid-level solutions based on the architecture Midgard. Mali-T720 has a simplified structure as compared with the Mali-T600 series and occupies less space on the chip, but ARM claims that the graphics performance during optimization is not affected.
Serial products, which use a Cortex-A17 architecture should be on the market in 2015. Related Products :
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