ARM announces new ARM Cortex-A72 processor

ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor. The new ARM Cortex-A72 is also 75 percent more energy efficient and is slated to launch late 2015 or early 2016. Nandan Nayampally, ARM's VP of marketing in the CPU Group, says that the A72 chip design has