from the mighty-mite-might-be-coming-soon dept.
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New Tools & IP Accelerate Development of 5nm Arm 'Hercules' SoCs
Arm, Synopsys, and Samsung Foundry have developed a set of optimized tools and IP that will enable chip designers to build next-generation SoCs based on Arm’s Hercules processor cores on Samsung’s 5LPE (5 nm, Low Power Early) node faster. The three companies expect the tools and IP to be used by designers of SoCs for a wide variety of applications.
The set of Synopsys tools are certified by Samsung Foundry for its 5LPE manufacturing technology, and now includes the Fusion Design Platform as well as QuickStart Implementation Kit that are enabled to optimize power, performance, and area for 5LPE designs. Meanwhile, Arm will provide Artisan Physical IP and POP IP tailored for Samsung’s 5LPE process. The IP packages will enable Arm’s partners to quickly develop 5LPE-optimized SoCs based on the Arm Hercules general-purpose CPU cores.
[...] Considering that Arm’s Hercules are the company’s next-generation advanced CPU cores and 5LPE is a leading-edge process technology, Samsung expects the new tools and IP to be used for SoCs aimed at HPC, automotive, 5G, and AI applications.
Samsung expected to tape out the first 5LPE chips in the second half of 2019 and plans to start volume production using the node in the first half of 2020.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 12 2019, @09:45PM
Unless they are changing up their branding, this will be renamed to Cortex-A78 later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A77 [wikipedia.org]
5LPE will have benefits, and Cortex-A78 could have other benefits.
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(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Sunday October 13 2019, @02:26AM
Come on ARM, give us something new. 720 x 348 resolution still sucks, even if your transistors are 5 nm.