Cortex processors, designed by Arm, are at the heart of smart devices, wearables, and mobile electronics. Known for their power efficiency, scalability, and performance, Cortex CPUs are integral to embedded systems, IoT solutions, and AI applications. With continued advancements in Cortex-M and Cortex-A series chips, Arm is enabling the next generation of low-power, high-performance devices. As edge computing and AI-driven systems proliferate, Cortex technology remains a critical enabler in electronics design and global market expansion.
Renesas has introduced a high-end AI MCU family with triple processors and security. The highest spec devices in the ‘RA8P1’ microcontroller family combine a 1GHz Arm Cortex-M85 processor with a 256 MAC/cycle 400MHz Arm Ethos-U55 neural processing unit and a 250MHz Cortex-M33 CPU. “This combination delivers CPU performance of over 7,300 CoreMarks and AI performance of 256Gop/s,” according to the ...
GigaDevice has revealed a family of 48MHz Arm Cortex-M23 microcontrollers. Aimed at industrial use GD32C231, its “Cortex-M23 core architecture offers up to 10% higher performance than Cortex-M0+”, according to the company. 32 to 64kbyte of flash and 12kbyte or ram are available, all with error correction. “An integrated hardware CRC module enhances data transmission integrity,” according to the company, which ...
Arm has pre-integrated intellectual property for designers of AI-defined vehicle ICs. “Capabilities like real-time driver monitoring, predictive maintenance and adaptive in-vehicle infotainment, that were once limited to premium models, are becoming the standard across all tiers of new vehicles,” according to the company. “At the same time, automotive development complexity continues to grow, with evolving safety requirements and increasing demands ...
Myir has announced a 37 x 39mm system-on-module (SoM) built around NXP’s i.MX 91 processor, which has a single 1.4GHz Arm Cortex-A55 core. “This module maintains pin compatibility with Myir’s existing i.MX93 MYC-LMX9X series, allows customers to scale designs without hardware redesigns,” according to the company. “It is capable of running Linux [6.6.36], making it perfect for electric vehicle charging ...
Mediatek has adopted Arm’s top-end Cortex-X925 CPU in its second-generation ‘all big core’ phone processor – Dimensity 9400, made by TSMC on a 3nm process. The X925 runs at up to 3.63GHz and has 2Mbyte of L2 cache, and shares the IC with three Cortex-X4 cores (1Mbyte L2 cache) and four Cortex-A720 cores (512kbyte L2 cache). These all share 12Mbyte ...
Raspberry Pi has announced its second microcontroller, the RP2350, adding two RISC-V cores alongside improved Arm cores, more ram, and security. Not initially available on its own (ETA pre-year-end), it will first ship as part of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 single-board microcontroller (right) – which is the same 21 x 51mm size as the original Pico, and priced from ...
Shenzhen MilkV Technology has a chip that combines: 1x 1GHz C906 RISC-V CPU 1x 700MHz C906 RISC-V CPU 1x 1GHz Arm Cortex-A53 CPU 1x 8051 CPU 1x 1Top/s (INT8) neural processor Called SG2002, it also has 256M (byte, probably…) DRAM, a camera interface, video acceleration, an audio codec and a crypto engine. Peripherals include 100Mbit/s Ethernet (with a phy), USB 2.0, ...
Microchip has announced its most secure 32bit microcontrollers – a series of 120MHz Cortex-M33 MCUs for connected things. “Emerging requirements make security mandatory for the majority of IoT connected devices,” said Micrchip v-p Rod Drake, claiming: “The PIC32CK makes it cost effective to provide hardware-based security to mid-range microcontroller applications.” That said, security does not come with every PIC32CK MCU ...
NXP has announced a real-time processor for vehicle central control computers with 16 1.2GHz Arm Cortex-R52 processors. Hardware isolation and virtualisation are provided to allow sharing of on-die hardware between different code blocks without interaction “to support the consolidation of cross-vehicle electronic control units in vehicle central compute applications”, said NXP. “Vehicle functions can be independently managed, including fault handling ...
Renesas is claiming “industry’s lowest overall power consumption for general purpose 32-bit MCUs” for its Arm Cortex-M23 based RA0 series. Consumption is 84.3μA/MHz and the company “offers a ‘software stand-by’ mode that reduces power consumption by a further 99% to 0.2 µA”, it said. Wake from this mode is in 4.6μs or less if the internal 32MHz oscillator is used. ...
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