#arm cortex a73

ARM has announced their latest mobile processor and graphics processor technologies designed flagship devices in 2017 - the Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU. The Cortex-A73, at 0.65mm2 per core (on a 10nm FinFET process technology) is the smallest and most efficient 'big' ARMv8-A core. It claims 30% uplift in sustained performance and power efficiency over Cortex-A73 with frequencies reaching up to 2.8GHz. If you're familiar with the 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 that powers the Samsung Wave and Galaxy S including the new Archos Android tablets, then it's going to be easy to imagine what a dual Cortex-A15 running up to 2.5GHz would look like. Samsung also announced a few days ago that they're shipping their new dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 1GHz starting 4th quarter of this year. ARM's dual-core Cortex-A15 MPCore can reach clock speeds of up to 2.5GHz and should be available by 2012. For the meantime, expect a lot of new smartphones and tablet to run the top-of-the-line ARM Cortex-A8 1GHz and possibly new Android smartphones from Samsung running their dual-core Cortex-A9 that's capable of full HD 1080p playback. Read more in our articles including "ARM announces Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU for 2017 flagships" and "ARM announces 2.5GHz Cortex-A15 MPCore".