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ARM Cortex-R8 processor design is out

by on18 February 2016


Aiming for modems and storage device

ARM has released the new Cortex-R8 processor design which it says can provide low latency and high performance for modem and storage device chips.

The press release claims that the Cortex chip delivers twice the performance of its predecessor. The Cortex-R7 was released in 2011 so twice the performance over five years is not that impressive, but better than a poke in the eye with a short stick.

The company is targeting the CPU for 5G and LTE modems, as well as next-gen storage devices.

The ARM Cortex-R8 is a quad-core with low-latency memory which can manage 2MB per core. This should make mobile downloading and data transfers faster.

Four cores have superscalar out-of-order execution capabilities to allow code being crunched by the cores to react to interrupts deterministically.

The Cortex-R8 works with existing software which makes it easy for developers to integrate it into single CPU real-time processing products and reduce design cycles.

More than 1.4 billion Cortex-R processors have found their way into data storage devices and on system-on-chip (SoC) hardware used by major hard disk drive and solid state drive makers.
ARM that a few chipmakers have already started using the chip in their SoC.

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