Arms After a dramatic journey that Nvidia did not buy, Arm announced its latest top CPUs. Coming soon to your Android 2023 devices, we have the Cortex-X3 and Arm Cortex-A715 processors. As usual, these designs will be part of a CPU system-on-chip cluster. Assuming the standard layout, the proposed Arm design will have a SoC 2023 with a large Cortex-X3 core, three mid-core Cortex-A715 CPUs and four small Cortex-A510 cores returning from the current generation. Arm promises that the X3 CPU will improve performance by 25 percent over the X2, while the Cortex A715 claims “20% energy efficiency gain and 5% efficiency increase” compared to the current generation Cortex A710. Arm claims that the A715 is as fast as the Cortex X1 CPU from 2020. The A715 also reduces 32-bit support, making it the last part of our theoretical top-of-the-line SoC with only 64 bits. The smaller A510 CPU returns, but Arm says it is “an upgrade” with a 5 percent reduction in power. A 25 percent year-over-year improvement for only the largest CPU will not fire up any reference graphs. For reference, our tests have shown that the Apple A15 is about 38 percent faster (in single-core and multi-core tests) than the best Android phones, and only a 25 percent increase in the single large CPU will mean that its Android phones 2023 will still be much slower than an iPhone 2021. Apple uses the Arm architecture but not the Arm designs, as Apple seems to be the best Arm chip designer. Enlarge / The Arm Cortex X3 brings some modest improvements. Arm

Distance from real products

Arm’s announcement only concerns designs that other companies can use for a real consumer chip, and most of the time that means Qualcomm or Samsung SoC. The distance between the arm and a final product means that you have to take into account the projected performance of the company with a little salt, as it still has to be filtered through the execution of the design of the Arm by someone else. Last year, none of Arm’s X2 screenings came true. The company promised a “30 percent faster” CPU when, in fact, X2-based chips on the market were slower or equal to X1 chips than last year. Advertising
There are already rumors that Qualcomm will not use Arm’s proposed SoC design device for the 2023 chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Rumor has it that Qualcomm will have a Cortex X3, two Cortex A720s, two A710 CPUs from the current generation and three A510 CPUs. The rationale for this would be that Qualcomm does not want to completely cut off 32-bit support for the Chinese market, and moving two A710 processors from 2022 to next year would keep the 32-bit train afloat. Arm also announced a new GPU design, which is not typically used by most vendors. Qualcomm has its own GPU division, the Adreno, and Samsung is now building GPUs with AMD. Your best bet to see an Arm GPU flagship in a product is with a rare top Mediatek SoC. For good reason, the new ARM GPU has a new name called “Immortalis GPU”. The Immortalis-G715 is the first GPU designed from the hardware beam arm (Samsung and AMD announced a similar feature last year). Arm claims that the GPU is 15 percent faster than last year. Zoom in / Arm tells its partners to go crazy with big M2 chip designs, but we’re not sure anyone is listening. Arm Arm also hopes vendors will scale up Arm chips with SoC designs for laptops and desktops. The company has introduced a new configuration that will include eight X3 processors, four A715 processors and zero small cores. Arm tried to insist on the same idea last year when it proposed an eight-chip X2 processor, but we do not believe anyone has embraced the company in this offering. Qualcomm plans to finally attack the laptop market in late 2023 with chips designed since the acquisition of Nuvia. Image entry by Arm