Looks like everybody who’s anybody in the mobile processor industry is announcing one new product or another, namely Samsung and Qualcomm. ARM is a supplier to both companies in that it provides the application processor cores that these companies usually use in their integrated SoC (system-on-a –chip) products. ARM’s newest baby is the Cortex-A35 processor, and it looks ready to conquer the emerging markets.
The market for devices in North America and Europe pretty much run on a set schedule when manufacturers launch their flagships and midrange products and all that. But the more exciting and untapped markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the ones that manufacturers are targeting these days. And with the Cortex-A35 processor as a basic component, this move by manufacturers to emerging markets just gained more momentum.
The new Cortex-A35 processor boasts of being a 64-bit capable processor with the lowest power consumption among ARM’s products. This means that manufacturers can now have 64-bit processors on their low-end to midrange smartphones to be offered for emerging markets. “We’re now enabling 64-bit features for the next billion smartphone users,” says Ian Smythe, ARM director of CPU marketing.
While the US market will always focus on bigger, more powerful smartphones, gadgets for new markets need to be low cost, with power-efficient 64-bit architectures. ARM says that the gadgets using A35 processors should start showing up by mid-2016.
VIA: Anandtech
