ARM Cortex A5: New Processors Launched

ARM have recently announced the launch of a new processor family, these processors are aimed to be used within smartphones, smartbooks and other consumer electronics, this new family of processors is called the “Cortex-A5 MPCore microprocessor family”.

These processors are designed to deliver better performance than current ARM9 and ARM11 processors, these processors have been used in a wide-range of modern devices, which include HTC handsets, Nokia handsets and even hand-held consoles.

The Cortex A5 processors are not only faster than previous ARM chips, but they also consume less power, therefore we can expect future ARM handsets to be faster whilst delivering better battery life.

Exactly what clock speeds and number of cores we can expect to see is currently unclear, however there is talk of a possible quad-core 1GHz chip, as we hear more we will keep you updated, don’t get too excited though as apparently these chips won’t be seen in devices until 2011, check out ITProPortal for more information.