ARM details upcoming 2.5GHz Cortex A15 chip

ARM has released some details of its forthcoming 2.5GHz Cortex A15 processor, at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday.

The chip, previously code-named Eagle, will be built in 32nm and 28nm processes by IBM, GlobalFoundries and Samsung. The core is superscalar, capable of running multiple instructions through a pipeline, and ARM says that it will perform up to five times faster than the current ARM 9 architecture. ARM Cortex image

The company said it would be used in 'superphones' (high-performance smartphones), home entertainment, small servers and wireless infrastructure, in one- to eight-core configurations and beyond.

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