ARM Presented the Multi-core Cortex-A5 Processor

23rd October, 2009 by Adina
Tags: ARM, Cortex-A5, Hardware, Multi-core, Processors

Present at TechCon3, ARM took the advantage of unveiling the new architecture of the multi-core processor Cortex-A5, capable of delivering Internet files to the widest possible range of devices. Both the power efficient Cortex-A5 uniprocessor and the scalable Cortex-A5 MPCore multi-core processors are supported by ARMv7 architectural functionality and a rich set of features capable to deliver high-performance at low-power consumption. The Cortex-A5 processor includes the NEON multimedia processing engine introduced with the Cortex-A8 processor. NEON technology is a 128-bit SIMD architecture extension for the series of Cortex-A processors, providing flexible acceleration for intensive multimedia applications.

ARM Cortex-A5 allows playing video in Flash 10.1 without needing an expensive processor, which puts it in advantage for use with conventional and smartphones, media players and other devices getting full Internet access.

Many firms will probably be licensed to use the ARM Cortex-A5 processor, but only Samsung has been specifically mentioned by now.

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