If you weren’t overly impressed by the ARM Cortex-A15 powered Exynos 5 Octa benchmark that we posted the other day, I have some good news for you hardware enthusiasts. ARM and manufacturer TSMC have issued a joint press release stating that the new Coretex-A57 chip has reached the “tape out” stage.
What this means is that the Cortex-A57 is technically ready for mass manufacture, and, impressively, it’s only taken six months to go from design to having the chip ready for production.
The Cortex A57 is supposedly heading for use in ARM’s next Big.LITTLE processor, and will be accompanied by a low power, efficient Cortex-A53 CPU. So we could be waiting on the other Cortex chip before we see any SoCs actually roll off the production belt.
The press release also details some of the performance improvements we can expect from the new Cortex-A57. ARM suggests that its new chip can offer up to triple the performance of the current top of the line Cortex-A15 for the same amount of battery consumption. The new Cortex-A57 will also offer five times the amount of battery life when running at the same speed as ARM’s current chips, which is excellent news for us smartphone owners.
So whilst it’s all looking good for ARM’s next generation of mobile processors, we still don’t have an expected arrival date for any handsets or tablets utilizing this new processor. In fact we are still waiting on a timetable for the A53/A57 big.LITTLE chips as well. But I’m optimistic that, when an A57 powered SoC finally hits the market, we’ll see the benchmarks shattered yet again.
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