ARM's 5nm chip plan exposed!
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ARM's chip technology is used in nearly all iPhones and Android phones, but other companies such as Apple, Qualcomm and TSMC actually design and manufacture processors using the technology. ARM hopes that its new designs in 2019 and 2020 will be able to break into the laptop market.
Compared to the Cortex-A73 released in 2016, the ARM team will achieve nearly 2.5 times the performance improvement in four years, and plans to launch a processor design codenamed Deimos in 2019 and a processor design codenamed Hercules in 2020.
If ARM succeeds, it could change the way you think about laptops, as technology that's mature in phones would also reach your PC. First, you'd get all-day battery life, and plugging the power cord into the wall would be just something you do at night. Second, you'd get the same mobile networks that keep your phone connected.
ARM promises to deliver the same performance as Intel's Core i5 processor. This year's ARM Cortex-A76 design running at 3GHz will match the performance of an Intel Core i5 in 3.5GHz turbo mode, and consumes only 5 watts of power, far less than Intel's 15 watts, to extend battery life. Full performance comparisons will depend on how the company that licenses ARM's chip designs decides to configure attributes such as processor cores.
In early June of this year, the Cortex-A76, a new generation of high-performance CPU core, was released. It can be used with 10nm and 7nm processes, and compared with the previous generation, the performance is improved by 35%, the energy efficiency is improved by 40%, and the machine learning performance is improved by 4 times. ARM claims that the A76 core has notebook-level performance, and the single-thread performance is comparable to Intel's low-voltage mobile version of the i5-7300U, and the power consumption is less than 5W at a frequency of 3.3GHz, while Intel's turbo acceleration is 3.5GHz and the thermal design power consumption is 15W.
Next year, ARM will launch a new core "Deimos" (Deimos, the god of fear in Greek mythology), which will be mainly used with 7nm, and the year after that will be another new generation of "Herculues" (Hercules in Greek mythology), which can be used with 7nm and 5nm.
Both are based on the A76 core architecture and continue to be deeply improved, claiming that computing performance can be improved by more than 15% with each generation.
ARM also claims that the computing performance of the 5nm Hercules core in 2020 can be improved by up to 2.5 times compared to the 16nm A73 in 2016, surpassing Moore's Law and far surpassing Intel.
Judging from the curve chart, the improvement of 7nm Deimos compared to 7nm A76 is amazing, estimated to be around 20%, and 5nm Hercules will improve by about 5% based on 7nm Deimos.
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