ARM Community: Tomorrow is now Today! TI shows the demo of ARM Cortex-A15 at CES - ARM Community

It was a little over a year ago when we launched the ARM Cortex™-A15 and talked about what the Cortex-A15 could offer for mobile devices and our partner, Texas Instruments has now shown their vision of what they could do with the capabilities of this cutting edge processor. The Cortex-A15 product has been embraced by the market and ARM’s ecosystem continues to grow in the very innovative mobile space.

At Consumer Electronic Show (CES) one of the most exciting things was the fruition of both these visions stated before with a dual-core Cortex-A15 implementation in the OMAP5™ mobile platform. The processors can reach frequencies up to 2GHz in 28nm process technology. It’s real and going!

As we predicted, this processor provides a significant performance boost – but it’s not just because of the frequency. In fact the focus is on performance efficiency – doing more per MHz and per milliwatt of power consumed. As TI notes, even at 800 MHz, the dual-core Cortex-A15 processors deliver more performance than dual-core Cortex-A9 at 1.5 GHz (and the 1.5 GHz Cortex-A9 dual-core products are still quite above the leading smartphones you see today, which use dual-Cortex-A9s at speeds of 1-1.2 GHz). Imagine what it could do when it really flexes its muscles at 2GHz.

Essentially what this all means is the consumer is the ULTIMATE WINNER! This isn’t pie-in-the sky stuff; this is a real chip delivering the amount of horsepower that we used to get in notebooks – in the palm of your hand. This means better applications, better movies, better games!

Here’s looking forward to an exciting year with products based on the Cortex-A15.


See the full write up from Engadget, here.


Nandan Nayampally, Director of Apps Processor Products, ARM, He has long history with application processors having managed the ARM11 family, the Cortex-A8 before taking on the Cortex-A15 and is now looking at next-generation processors. Having been a keen observer of the accelerating trend towards connected and differentiated devices and how they affect our everyday lives, this reluctant blogger intends to pitch in with a processor-centric viewpoint now and then.