Smartphones and tablets, the 2 hottest categories of consumer devices instantly, are dominated by ARM processor designs, so when the corporate speaks up about its product roadmap, we’re inclined to listen in close. The subsequent generation of ARM system-on-chip has been dubbed Cortex-A15 and was expected to ship in 2013 , but that’s now been accelerated slightly to late 2012, that’s after we’re told to expect actual devices on sale with A15 silicon on board. Single- and dual-core variants gets us started, before quad-core options start filtering through in 2013. ARM promises fivefold improvement in performance over current Cortex-A9 SOCs and already has NVIDIA , Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments signed up as licensees for that new hotness. So now even Samsung’s “desktop-class” 2GHz dual-core chip that’s slated for 2012 has a reason to seem over its shoulder. Happy times!
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