ARM announces 2.5 GHz Cortex processor for smartphones

"within a comparable energy footprint" - that's the interesting part right there. If they can get those gains, without sacrificing much battery life, then this is very impressive.
 
I really don't think a phone with this processor deserves to be called a phone anymore. It's a mini-PC with phone capabilities.
It's gonna cost a fortune though, I bet.
 
"Just this week, Samsung announced it will be making its latest 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor available to some manufacturers next quarter. This is a newer and faster version of the already impressive Hummingbird A8 chip seen in the Android-based Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab slate. A variant of this Hummingbird chip is also found in the Apple iPhone 4.

No doubt the A9 will give plenty of computing power, but ARM (which provides the Cortex technology to its partners like Samsung) is already planning its next move with the announcement of the Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The 1- to 1.5GHz versions of this chip will be used for smartphones and are supposed to give better battery life and "console-quality gaming".

According to a video presentation by ARM (embedded after the jump), this can deliver up to 10 times better performance compared with current smartphone chips. The A15 can also be scaled up to 2.5GHz in a quad-core format for use in home entertainment products and servers."

Seems 2.5GHz phones are still a way off....
 
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Le^stat said:
Wonder if this will be a spanner is Apple's works, or if they might take advantage...
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Why would it be? Apple has been using ARM cpu's in their iPhones since day one & also their iPods. Apple even worked with ARM on the Arm Core in the 80's which ended up as the ARM6
 
Phenie said:
I really don't think a phone with this processor deserves to be called a phone anymore. It's a mini-PC with phone capabilities.
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:confused: All phones have cpus. ARM cpus can be found in just about any device you can think of. They are the biggest cpu manufacturer by volume of cores shipped, by 2008 they shipped about 10billion of the little critters, that figure is probably closer to 15-20billion by now.
 
P0is3nIvy said:
...and fry your hand while you at it... like the "you can't touch this, Castle Lite" AD :)
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Nevermind frying your hand....what about the hydrogen fuelpack that you'll have to carry on your back to give the CPU juice for more than an hour?
 
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