Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new version of the company’s Cortex-A15 design. The ARM Cortex-A15 MP4 Hard Macro is a low power 28nm quad-core chip design that runs at 2 GHz. What sets the “Hard Macro” designs apart from “Soft Macro” is that the soft macro versions offer chip makers more flexibility to customize various aspects of the chip….
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The upcoming TI OMAP 5 processor will be one of the first chips designed around the ARM Cortex-A15 architecture. Theoretically it will offer more power than today’s fastest chips, while using less energy. But that’s theory. How does is stack up in practice? Pretty well, if a new demo video from Texas Instruments is anything to go by. The company…
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Samsung is the first company to produce processor samples using ARM’s new Cortex-A15 designs. The Samsung Exynos 5250 is a 32nm chip with a 2 GHz dual core processor. It’s likely aimed at next-generation tablets, smartphones, and other low power devices. According to Samsung, the new chip can handle 14 billion instructions per second, making it almost twice as fast…
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LG builds a lot of devices with ARM-based chips, ranging from smartphones and tablets to televisions and set-top boxes. So it’s not a huge surprise that the company is looking at building its own chips. LG and ARM have entered a licensing agreement what will allow the consumer electronics company to build chips using ARM technology. It’s described as a…
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Chip designer ARM announced plans last year for next-generation Cortex-A15 chips which would come in single, dual, and quad-core varieties with clock speeds up to 2.5 GHz. Of course, it’ll take a while to actually finalize the platform, but PC World reports that ARM is ahead of schedule and the first Cortex-A15 chips could ship as early as late 2012….
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Chip designer ARM is behind the basic designs found in most smartphones on the market today as well as a number of tablets and smartbooks. Right now the top speed for most ARM chips is 1GHz, although faster chips with dual core processors are due out next year. That’s just the tip of the iceberg though. Today ARM unveiled plans…
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