ARM announced its latest Cortex-A17 CPU for next mid-ranger smartphones and other devices UnknownTuesday, February 11, 2014 0 comments

At ARM newsroom, this British company has announced the next and the latest model unit Cortex-A17, which is set to replace the former in 2015 and provides enhanced mid-range mobile and consumer solution. Designed for the various device such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, a car system and a set-top-boxes in the near future models.

The company suggested to the manufacturer to use its own Mali-T720 GPU with the Cortex-A17 CPU, but this is not a mandatory, so the manufacturer have a choice to paired with PowerVR and Broadcomm CPU. By using the Cortex-A17 the system performance will boost by up to 60 percent more responsive and provide more powerful performance.

The Cotex-A17 CPU and the Mali-T720 GPU chipset will deliver the much needed and will power the next generation of mid-range mobile devices. A modern designs best complemented with the latest advanced IP like ARM Mali-T720 GPU, ARM Mali-DP500 DPU and ARM Mali-V500 VPU delivering peak performance of today's premium performance levels.

"The Cortex-A17 processor offers 60% performance uplift over the Cortex-A9 processor, the current leader in mid-range mobile market, and betters the best efficiency enabling optimized solutions to address existing and new products. The Cortex-A17 processor is based on the popular ARMv7-A architecture, today’s most successful architecture in the mobile market. With over 1M apps supporting the ARMv7-A architecture, the Cortex-A17 processor is primed to bring the high-end performance levels of 2014 to next generation mid-range devices in 2015, with further increased efficiency for enabling a better user experience.

The Cortex-A17 processor is scalable up to 4 cores, each offering a full out-of-order pipeline delivering peak performance of today’s premium performance levels. A fully integrated, low-latency L2 cache controller, accelerator interfaces to target specific use cases, and high-throughput AMBA 4 ACE Coherent Bus Interface enable the Cortex-A17 processor to be tailored for the right task. Its modern design is best complemented with the latest advanced IP like ARM Mali-T720 GPU, ARM Mali-DP500 DPU, and ARM Mali-V500 VPU and CoreLink CCI-400, but is also fully backwards compatible to existing AMBA3 and AMBA4 AXI based systems based on ARM Mali-450 GPU and CoreLink NIC-400 to ease integration and time-to-market.

The Cortex-A17 processor, in combination with its high-efficiency counterpart Cortex-A7 processor, provides an ideal solution for mobile devices in 2015 and beyond, bringing the heterogeneous processing benefits of big.LITTLE Global Task Switching (GTS) to the mid-range market. Coupled with CoreLink System IP components like the CoreLink CCI-400 interconnect, Cortex-A17 and Cortex-A7 processors are the foundation for upcoming devices that are more efficient and higher performance than any solution in this class before."

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