If the x86 / 64 architecture is the absolute leader in the PC world, Exactly the same can be said of ARM when it comes to smartphonestablets and other portable devices … with the difference, between the two, that ARM is beginning to consume x86 / 64 territory, with Apple being the main person responsible for this move, which until a few years ago may have seemed like something absolutely unthinkable.

Of course, this would not be possible without the constant development of the entire platform that makes up the ARM, so any notification of new integrated, or more precisely components for them, is a very important move, because of the evolution of the whole ecosystem based on this architecture. And today is without a doubt the most interesting day in this regard, because ARM Holdings has announced six new products.

First, let’s talk about the cores that make up the CPU which in turn is integrated into the SoC. And in this regard, we will find three innovations, all focused on high scale, and which we will certainly see in a large part of the integrated ones flagship brands over the next year.

The main character is ARM Cortex-X3which, as you may have deduced from the name, is called a replacement for the current top of the range, the Cortex-X2, which is currently found in integrated ones such as Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1. It will offer a maximum speed of 3.3 GHz and according to ARM will be able to offer 25% higher performance than Cortex-A2. The company states, and it should be borne in mind, that this Cortex-X2 could also be used integrated in laptops and desktops, exactly as mentioned at the beginning.

Along with this, the Cortex-X3 saw light and cores today Cortex-A715, replacement for Cortex-A710 which would exceed performance by 20%, bringing it to the level of the once top Cortex-X1, and reworking Cortex-A510which has been on the market since last year, but with the changes it underwent in this revision, it would see an improvement in performance of around 5% compared to last year ‘s version.

There are also innovations in relation to the GPU, with two new chips being added to the Mali family, and a bomb, Immortalis, a new GPU that we will only see in the most advanced devicesand this opens the door to a new generation of devices.

Starting with the other Immortalis, GPU for smartphones and tablets with hardware ray tracing support, following the path taken by Samsung with its Exynos 2200, the first GPU smartphone with hardware acceleration for ray tracing. Thisp will certainly be especially suitable for gaming devices such as gaming smartphones, which will also benefit from 15% higher performance, 15% higher efficiency and twice the AI ​​performance of the world’s best graphics processors. previous generation.

The company also introduced a novelty Mali-G715 GPU (7 to 9 cores) Y Mali-G615 (6 cores or less) focused on the premium segment (Immortalis goes straight to the top of the market offer). Like the Immortalis-G715, these new GPUs will support variable speed shading and include a new boot engine to improve performance and efficiency, but they will not have the hardware support for ray tracing, which we could already do.

With these announcements, ARM is leading us on the right path what can we expect from the top smartphones of 2023 and at least part of 2024, a period that could be particularly relevant both in terms of designs that play with the form factor (folding, scrolling, etc.) and, although it will also depend a lot on the developers, games for smartphones. If the second half of this year will be very interesting from the point of view of PC technology, the year 2023 points to very interesting paths for the smartphone market.

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