Now not only Apple, but even other ARM partners can further customize their processors, sparking hopes of catching up with the iPhone in terms of processing power and bringing more useful features.
ARM Ltd, the chip design company that underlies most of the world’s smartphones, has just showcased its high-end mobile chip designs, the Cortex-A78 processor and the Mali-G78 GPU. The new designs not only provide better performance, but also increase the energy efficiency of the device.
The Cambridge, UK-based company says its new Cortex-A78 processor design will increase its predecessor’s ‘maintenance performance’ by 20% over its predecessor, while consuming only around 1W of power.
Another highlight of the new chip design is the higher energy efficiency. ARM says this addresses the need for higher power consumption of 5G technology. Additionally, the company said, the new processor design will be particularly suited to the high computing needs of foldable devices, which have larger screens that are folded together.
ARM’s new Mali-G78 GPU will support up to 24 cores, which is promised a 25% increase in graphics processing power over its predecessor, the Mali-G77 last year. ARM also introduced its first mid-range GPU, the Mali-G68, which makes mid-range and low-cost devices more capable of handling graphics while reducing costs.
At the same time, the company also announced a new Cortex-X program that allows designers to further customize according to their needs so that the processing speed can be increased by 30%.
Although ARM provides chip design and allows the use of code in processors for chip designers and smartphone manufacturers such as Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei Technologies or MediaTek, so far the processor of Apple’s A series is still considered the fastest.
This is due to the fact that Apple is more customizable to better combine software and hardware to deliver high-end performance compared to smartphones using Google’s Android operating system. Statements of performance are also often a highlight of Apple’s marketing tactics for the iPhone.
“The rate of increase in smartphone performance has overtaken all categories of computing devices in the industry today.” ARM said in its statement. “To meet an endless need for the highest possible levels of performance, we are launching a new interactive program called Cortex-X Custom to provide partners with greater flexibility and capabilities. expansion to increase performance. “
The Cortex-X will allow chip designers and phone makers to add a new base number to incorporate the components that leverage key smartphone functions. While current processor designs typically incorporate high-performance, energy-efficient cores, new ARM designs take a different approach. Cortex-X cores from external developers can be activated for a short time when certain software needs the maximum performance the chip can provide.
Now, smartphone processors will have a new core, customized by chip and smartphone makers to further improve processing speed and new features.
With a new ARM design and changes in the approach of chip development partners, 2021 promises to see more enthusiasm in the custom chip market, especially from Android phone makers. as well as from Microsoft, he always wanted to bring a full desktop operating system to these ARM chips.
