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ARM announces Cortex®-A35 power efficient processor

AmarendraNovember 13, 2015

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2015 has been the year of low cost power efficient chipsets and ARM’s Cortex A7 was one of the widely used chip (featured in MediaTek MT658x series SoCs, Qualcomm Snapdraon 400, 200 SoCs). This week, ARM has announced the successor, the Cortex A35. The Cortex^®-A35 is based on ARMv8-A architecture and is 64-bit capable chip and supports ARM big.LITTLE^™ multi-core configuration.

Cortex^®-A35 delivers upto 20% more power when compared to Cortex-A7 and yet only consumes 90mW total power per core (@ 1GHz). When compared to the Cortex-A53, Cortex^®-A35 consumes 33% less power per core and is also 25% less in size and more importantly, is 25% more efficient. In laymans terms, this enables OEMs to employ more powerful chips with big.LITTLE configuration. The A35 will act as powerful yet power efficient ‘LITTLE’ chip and this gives the devices more computing power when less CPU intensive tasks are running, without sacrificing on battery.

“Cortex-A35 is the natural successor to the compact-footprint Cortex-A7, the leading energy-efficient processor, which has powered more than a billion smartphones and tablets,” said James McNiven, general manager, CPU group. “With the introduction of the world’s most efficient 64-bit capable mobile processor, ARM and its partners will deliver the benefits of 64-bit computing to the next billion smartphone users and beyond.”

“The ARM Cortex-A35 processor is welcomed by MediaTek for its scalability of the ARMv8-A architecture, which will enable us to continue to provide efficient and highly integrated 64-bit SoCs to global markets,” said Jeffrey Ju, executive vice president and co-chief operating officer, MediaTek.

Key Features

Architecture : ARMv8-A (AArch32 and AArch64 )
Multicore : 1-4x SMP within a single processor cluster, and multiple coherent SMP processor clusters through AMBA^® 5 CHI or AMBA 4 ACE technology
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