ARM?s A7 To Act As Sidekick Processor To More Powerful A15 And Friends

Here's another entry to add to the alphabet soup of processors, chips, and components being bandied about by device makers. ARM, whose A8 core forms the center of a great number of mobile devices, has announced a little brother to their line of higher clockspeed processors. The A7 will form a sort of low-power sidekick to the more powerful A15 and its ilk. The A7 (no direct relation to Apple's A4 and A5, though they're in the same extended family and at some point these naming strategies are going to interact) is built on a 28nm process (compared with the others, made at 40-45nm), meaning it can be both physically smaller and draw less power. It's intended to be used for things like always-on services, background checks and downloads for instance, while passing off more CPU-intensive stuff like media and gaming to the bigger chip. While running only the smaller A7, the system would draw significantly less power — up to 70%, they say.

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