At present, the most high-end CPU core in the mobile market is the Cortex-A57 of ARM, which is used in Samsung Exynos 5433, Exynos 7420 and Snapdragon 810. On February 4, ARM immediately released the next-generation chip Cortex-A72, which has 3.5 times the performance of Cortex-A15 and 14nm technology.

The Cortex-A72 core can achieve 3.5 times the performance of Cortex-A15 in the same power consumption on mobile phones, and reduce the power consumption by 75%. Cortex-A72 uses ARMv8-A instruction set and supports 64 bit operations.

Under the same power consumption, the performance of Cortex-A72 with 16nm FinFET process is 3.5 times that of Cortex-A15 with 28nm, while that of Cortex-A57 with 20nm is 1.9 times that of Cortex-A15. Of course, we are still skeptical here. In actual use, the performance of Exynos 5433 is 1.9 times less than that of Exynos 5420.

Also released with Cortex-A72 is the Mali-T880, which has 1.8 times the performance of the previous generation flagship Mali-T760 and saves 40% of power consumption.

ARM also released the new CoreLink chip CCI-500, which can significantly improve the utilization of system bandwidth and support 4K and above screen resolution.

The next-generation SoC architecture released by ARM will be officially commercially available in 2016, which is composed of Cortex-A72 and Cortex-A53 The LITTLE architecture is the core, which is manufactured using advanced 16nm FinFET technology, and is matched with CCI-500 and Mali-T880 graphics processors.