ARM announces the launch of enhanced Cortex-A78C architecture for next-generation on-the-go devices

The chip architecture provided by ARM is currently dominating the field of smartphones. Such chips have lower power consumption and good performance to meet the needs of smartphones and users.

However, the performance of the ARM architecture on the desktop platform may still be somewhat different from that of x86, so ARM is naturally trying to solve the performance gap with x86.

In particular, Apple has decided to transition from the x86 architecture to the ARM architecture. In the future, all MacBooks will use Apple’s self-developed chips to abandon Intel chips.

In this case, ARM, which dominates the smartphone field, has to catch up, so now the ARM Cortex A78C enhanced version of the large core architecture is officially launched.

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The new CPU core introduced this time is the ARM Cortex-A78C architecture, which is similar to the Cortex-A78 released at the beginning of the year.

But Cortex-A78C is specially designed for notebook computers by ARM, which can significantly improve the performance of notebook computers and optimize the workload.

In terms of specific architecture, Cortex-A78C has more cache than similar products such as Cortex-A78, especially a single chip that supports up to 8 big CPU cores.

The Cortex-A78 is based on the Cortex-A55 architecture and supports up to 4 big cores and 4 little cores, so it is not as good as A78C in terms of multithreading performance.

Combined with 8 MB of L3 cache and other optimizations, it can also bring better performance for AAA games, multimedia editing and rendering, and other professional productivity.

ARM said that the new product launched this time will be an ideal choice for portable devices and notebook computers, which can extend battery life while meeting performance requirements.