ARM has released new Cortex chips

British microprocessor developer ARM has announced the latest updates for the smartphone market - the Cortex-R5 MPCore and Cortex-R7 MPCore processors, to which support for LTE and LTE-Advanced standards has been added. As part of Intel's defense against the smartphone market, with its promising energy-efficient versions of the Atom processor, the new ARM Cortex-R chips offer binary compatibility with existing company processors, while adding new features and technologies. The company hopes that this will allow it to maintain its leading position in this market.

Designed for smartphones and embedded devices (pos-terminals, self-service kiosks, etc.), R5 and R7 chips are available in single- and dual-core versions. Both chips contain all the enhancements to the Cortex R4 architecture, including the high-priority and low-latency peripheral port and the negotiation acceleration port (ACP) for cache sharing, help to increase the performance, reliability and efficiency of the chips.


The flagship of the R series is the ARM Cortex R7 chip, which includes functions intended for using this processor in high-performance LTE-Advanced smartphones in the coming years. In particular, extraordinary execution, significantly increasing productivity, dynamic renaming of registers, improved branch prediction logic, superscalar.

The company confirmed that the R7 chips are ready for production using the 28-nanometer process technology, which will produce chips that are much smaller and consume less energy. In this case, ARM has not yet announced which of the chip manufacturers will be engaged in the release of such a version of the chip in the near future.
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Speaking about the launch of the new chips, ARM Vice President Eric Shorn said that the simultaneous release of Cortex R5 and R7 strengthens the company's leading position and makes it possible to clearly distinguish between the choice of architecture for future mobile devices and the vast embedded market. According to him, these two advanced processors combine more than twenty years of ARM experience in designing low-power high-performance chips, which will allow partners to create devices based on a single coherent architecture.

The chip design is now available for licensing to chip makers, and ARM has already confirmed the names of four major licensees working in the areas of storage systems, automotive and mobile communications, who have acquired the rights to new processors.

via Thinq