The Members Forum

Did you hear the news about the Samsung Orion, a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor announced last Tuesday, September 7th? The thing’s a BEAST! Now, think about your latest 1GHz Snapdragon phone. Now, double that speed. Now, double it again. Now, divide that by four and multiply it by five. Now, jump up and down and wave your hands in the air, like you have no idea where this is going and you’re beginning to not care. Samsung is promising a 5x increase in 3D graphic performance over today’s smartphone devices.

What? You’re not impressed yet? You feel the title to this article a tad misleading? Well, a mere 3 days later we’re excited to learn of an even MORE impressive feat by the ARM team. The ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor.

Designed for superior processing performance, coupled with low power consumption, the processor is an extremely efficient piece of technology at the center of devices in your hands as little as a year from now.

“But can it run Crysis?” Well.. no.. most likely not.. but it’s still a ridiculous technology for it’s size. You can do all the mobile multi-tasking your heart desires. The ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore is capable of  running at up to 2.5GHz on EIGHT cores. Now, early on, this processor may only be scaled to ~1.5GHz over two cores in smartphones, however the same processor architecture shall be scaled to higher speeds and more cores depending on the device, whether it be phone, netbook, tablet, home theater systems, or low power servers.

The ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore is not only compatible with many of those different devices, but many different components such as NANDflash, SSD, HDD, or moviNANDTM up to 1TB along with both SATA, and eMMC interfaces. The processor also support LPDDR2 or DDR3 RAM.

Extra goodies? Built-in GPS and full 1080p HDMI 1.3a support. The processor can simultaneously support two on-device screens, and a third external display.  I hope that doesn’t surprise any of you, it BETTER support full HD with processing power like that, and make me toast while it’s at it!