https://liliputing.com/2020/05/arms-next-gen-chip-designs-to-boost-efficiency...It all just got a lot better for you ----- everywhere !!!Fast on the heels of Apple and Intel stating their very divergent pathways, we got the full read on the Apple announced new generations of ARM based chipsets.
As always, ARM will not announce anything until the first mover (who pays big bucks for this exclusivity) comes out with their announcements. Apple has done their announcements at this time. So now ARM is now free to define all the various bits and pieces in a full public fashion .......
wowSo Apple says "full speed ahead, here are the next two generations of Apple progress for this year and next year" and Intel in turn has said "we aren't budging an inch until two more generations have passed and this new 5nm technology is totally mature -- until then it is 14nm for all of you
Intel Inside idiots".
Now ARM comes out of the closet and explains it all in some detail...... The new ARM Cortex-A78 CPU, Mali-G78 and GMali-G68 GPU, and Ethos-N78 neural processing unit are likely to show up in devices shipping next year, if not sooner.
ARM Cortex-A78ARM says a 5nm ARM Cortex-A78 CPU offers 20-percent better sustained performance than a previous-gen Cortex-A77 core while consuming the same amount of power. In other words, you’re 20-percent less likely to see speeds drop at the processor gets hot.
The company says Cortex-A78 chips can also offer up to a 30-percent boost in peak single-core performance when used with ARM’s new Cortex-X1 custom program.
And as usual, these high-performance CPU cores can be combined with lower-performance, more energy-efficient CPU cores in the same chip. In this case, ARM says you may see big.LITTLE chips that combine Cortex-A78 and Cortex-A55 cores.
ARM Mali-G78 and Mali-G68ARM is promising up to a 25-percent performance boost in its new flagship-class Mali-G78 GPU, while using less power than its predecessors. The GPU also supports between 7 and 24 graphics cores.
The chip designer is also introducing a “sub-flagship” version called Mali-G68 which has many of the same features, but tops out at 6 graphics cores. ARM says we’ll see “sub-flagship” devices with Mali-G68 graphics in 2021.
Ethos-N78According to ARM, compared with the previous-gen Ethos-N77 NPU, we can expect:
100-percent boost in peak performance
25-percent boost in performance efficiency
40-percent better bandwidth efficiency
AND IT GETS BETTER !!!!! The ARM X-1 processor is out now too at a 22% to 30% throughput improvement compared to the very best of what is being sold today and this means A-77 and A-78 are being bettered by X-1 !!!!!All of the new generations of ARM server chipsets, the ARM workstation chipsets, the Personal Computer chipsets and the Phone chipsets will all share in this bounty of betterment. If your Android and other operating systems actually use the AI features that are built into ARM you can expect a slice of that 100% boost in peak performance that the new ARM processor sets can bring.
The best way to get the full interrelated picture is to let Gary explain it all to you by watching this YouTube explanation ......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqerGRFwxFgI strongly suggest taking the 20 minutes to watch this Gary Explains session. The changes at ARM are VERY LARGE and very interrelated.
Also, the companies that participated in the X-1 program will now get all sorts of advantages beyond what has been announced so far --- and by inference these X-1 builder guys and the Neoverse guys (rack space and mainframe guys) are totally busting out of the Intel "totally locked down" world and
they are likely going to be going with ARM out into the future as Intel simply has no new Intel roadmap plans for the next two years.
And Gary mentions ARM PCs and new ARM mainframe uses of the new ARM technologies --- this too is imminent and will act to disrupt the current x86 dominance.