ARM ANNOUNCES CORTEX-A77 AND MALI-G77 FOR PREMIUM SMARTPHONES
Taipei, May 27: Going into Computex 2019, ARM may have dialled down on its claims, but the company made sure that it remains at the back of our minds with the launch of two new chip architecture that provide a considerable boost in performance for AI.
Th components — the Cortex-A77 CPU core and the Mali-G77 graphics part — are likely to feature in the premium smartphones of 2020. While the Cortex-A77 design may just be a refinement of last years’ A76, the new hardware claims to be 20 per cent faster instructionsper-clock performance without hurting efficiency, and that translates to roughly 35 times faster machine learning performance than the old A55. Most SoC designs, from the likes of Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung, operate with two or four beefy cores like the Cortex-A77 and then a smattering of more power-efficient cores alongside them for basic tasks. So, a more powerful CPU is definitely going to make the smartphone faster and consume less amount of battery. Meanwhile, the Mali-G77 boasts a brand new architecture called Valhall. ARM claimed the Mali-G77 will provide around 40 per cent improvement in performance. It would also see around 30 per cent jump in energy efficiency gains from the microarchitecture enhancements. The G77 chip also adds in a 60 per cent to machine-learning performance, “which significantly boosts inference and neural net (NN) performance for advanced on-device intelligence.” When clubbed together, ARM will look to maintain its performance lead and momentum.