Smartphones and tablets, the two hottest categories of consumer devices right now, are
dominated by ARM processor designs, so when the company speaks up about its product roadmap, we're inclined to listen in close. The next generation of ARM system-on-chip has been dubbed Cortex-A15 and was expected to
ship in 2013, but that's now been accelerated slightly to late 2012, which is when we're told to expect actual devices on sale with A15 silicon on board. Single- and dual-core variants will get us started, before quad-core options start filtering through in 2013. ARM promises a stunning fivefold improvement in performance over current
Cortex-A9 SOCs and already has
NVIDIA, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and
Texas Instruments signed up as licensees for that new hotness. So now even Samsung's "desktop-class"
2GHz dual-core chip that's slated for 2012 has a reason to look over its shoulder. Happy times!
ARM predicts dual-core Cortex-A15 devices in late 2012, quad-core variants 'later on' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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