ARM Holding Quarterly report is not limited to dry Quote about achieved financial results. Director General Simon Segars spoke with inspiration about how ARM developpement are changing the world around us. Five years ago, he said, he used a BlackBerry device with modest computing power, and now smartphones offer increased 80-fold speed. Batteries, unfortunately, during this time is not perfected in proportion, but the modern mobile devices can already be called supercomputers. Progress in the development of smartphones opens up new possibilities for their use.
Segars argues that we should not be afraid of stagnation in the development of smart phones - as soon as there will be additional computing capabilities, developers will find their appropriate use. Data transmission speed will increase, the delay of information processing are minimized. The larger high-resolution screen, a variety of sensors and CPU performance - this combination will learn to anticipate the user's intentions.
Chapter ARM also stressed that the processor architecture class ARMv8-A multi-core arrangement are gaining popularity at a solid pace. By the end of this year, more than half of new smartphones will use the architecture ARMv8-A, and in the last quarter to 80% of new Android-smartphone using quad-core processors architecture Cortex-A53. Advanced architectures become available, and eventually penetrate even in the lower price segment. The number of skeptics who did not believe in the prospects of big.LITTLE, today is rapidly decreasing.
ARM Mali graphics cores are also quite popular - 30% of processors for smartphones equipped with them. Management team is convinced that the multi-core processor architecture Cortex-A72 has a sufficiently high speed to be used in a wide range of products, including devices with the arrangement of the classic notebook.