ARM has unveiled Cortex-A15 MPCore processor that delivers a 5x performance improvement, compared to advanced smartphone processors, within a comparable energy footprint.
The Cortex-A15 processor supports an array of products ranging from next-generation smartphones, tablets, large-screen mobile computing and high-end digital home entertainment devices through to wireless basestations and enterprise infrastructure products.
The company said that the Cortex-A15 MPCore processor enhances the ARM Cortex-A series of processors by providing the electronics industry with a range of software and feature-set compatible processors.
The Cortex-A15 extends the capabilities of the ARM Cortex-A Series by adding hardware support for OS virtualisation, soft-error recovery, larger memory addressability and system coherency.
In addition, Cortex-A15 has full application compatibility with all of the other Cortex-A processors, which enables immediate access to an established developer and software ecosystem.
This includes Android, Adobe Flash Player, Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), JavaFX, Linux, Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7, Symbian and Ubuntu, along with more than 700 ARM connected community members providing applications software, hardware and software development tools, middleware and SoC design services.
