Early February 2015, ARM announced its newest Cortex-A72 known to be their highest-performance and most advanced mobile ARM processor as of late.

This can only mean one thing, faster and low power consumption mobile devices in the future. ARM or Acorn RISC Machine, if you haven’t heard of it, is a group of instruction set architectures well-known for system-on-a-chip processor that is notably used in big name products such as Apple’s iPhones, iPads and Samsung’s mobile devices as well. Imagine this, the latest Smartphones are already running at a powerful speed, but now ARM are bringing us three time that power, 2016 is set to be a special year.

“The pace of innovation in mobile is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, which means we need to deliver the latest technology to our customers as fast as possible. We are pleased to partner with ARM for the launch of Cortex-A72, bringing the ARMv8-A architecture to market with leading performance and energy-efficiency benchmarks. Ultimately it is all about providing a better experience for end users as the complexity of applications, content and devices increases.”

Senior Vice President Joe Chen

Getting to Know ARM’s New Cortex-A72 processor

ARM has been providing us powerful processors over the past years in smartphones and tablets. The Cortext A72 is expected to deliver way higher performance than the current generation of processors being currently used.

Using the ARMv8-A architecture, it provides 64-bit support that also focuses on a power-efficient implementation and of course maintaining backwards compatibility with the existing 32-bit software.

The Cortex-A72 processor can also be combined with their own Cortex A-53 using ARM big.LITTLE™ configuration to boost energy efficiency.

What’s new With the Cortex-A72 Processor?

• Optimized for the 16nm FinFET process technology, it will bring a significant boost in performance allowing the processor to clock up to 2.5GHz in the mobile power envelope.
• Will have the benefits of having a much lower power consumption improving efficiency combined with the 16nm FinFET process technology achieving a 75% less in power consumption.
• Features Major micro-architectural improvements on the current ARMv8-A architecture.

What’s going to change in Mobile Devices?

Smartphones being their primary compute platform, it is said to be capable of consuming, enhancing and creating any content on the go. Here are some potential changes in 2016 on our mobile devices.

• Premium smartphones – It is said to perform three times better than 2014 28nm Cortex-A15 processor designs.
• Larger screen on mobile devices – Larger screens require more power and with the coming of Cortex-A72, we can have just that.
• Low power consumption – With a massive 75% drop on power consumption, it will increase battery life on our mobile devices.

One thing is for certain, 2016 is going to be a very exciting year for mobile technology.