Microprocessors

Arm has announced its 5th generation of GPU architecture and the first GPUs to be designed on it – Immortalis-G720 for high-end phones, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620. The 5th generation is “designed as the most efficient GPU architecture that Arm has ever created [and] redefines parts of the graphics pipeline to reduce memory bandwidth enabling high geometry games and real-time 3D ...

Arm has announced its latest architecture, the 64bit-only Armv9.2, and three grades of processor built on it. At the top-end of single-thread performance will be Cortex-X4, then Cortex-A720 in the middle, and Cortex-A520 at the power-saving bottom. These can be mixed and matched in clusters of cores (example right). “We are not only delivering the highest performing Arm Cortex CPU ...

NXP has added low-end to its i.MX 9 series, with Linux-capable single core Arm Cortex-A55 application processor variants, running at up to 1.4GHz, without supporting microcontrollers. The existing i.MX 93 family has two A55s and a Cortex-M33, and the high-end i.MX 95 family has up to six A55s, an M33, a Cortex-M7 and an audio DSP. The new parts have ...

Imagination Technologies has announced a series of smaller GPUs, but has not publicly released any technical details. Called CXM, at least some of them support 4K resolution, and at least some support 10bit RGBA and YUV ‘HDR (high dynamic range) operation. “CXM GPUs boast nearly 50% more performance in the same silicon area than IMG BXM cores,” according to the ...

ST is offering SESIP Level 3 security certification in 64bit microprocessors aimed at industry-4.0, with industrial interfaces and edge AI acceleration. Called the STM32MP2 series, these are the first 64bit STM32 ICs (all before are 32bit), and the first of this series will be the STM32MP25, available with single or dual 1.5GHz 64bit Arm Cortex-A35 cores (up to 6,000 DMIPS), ...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced an SoCs for Bluetooth Low Energy, LE Audio, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Matter with “multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors, clocked up to 320MHz” and “multiple RISC-V coprocessors”, it said. Part of a forthcoming nRF54 series, the new IC, nRF54H20, will be fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX process and “capable of supporting Bluetooth 5.4 and future Bluetooth specifications, plus ...

Aiming at secure authentication, NXP has put an NFC reader on the same IC as SESIP-Level 2 security and an Arm Cortex-M33 with 180kbyte flash and 20kbyte ram. Dubbed PN7642, it was announced in Nuremberg at Embedded World this week. “NFC technology has become foundational to secure authentication, whether it’s verifying that the person standing at the front door has ...

In a second announcement in one day at Embedded World In Nuremberg, TI revealed Arm Cortex-A72-based microcontrollers for AI and vision processing with up to 12 cameras, for building, industrial and retail automation. AM62A3 and AM62A7 (and their ..-Q1 automotive cousins) support one to two cameras (up to 5Mpixel, streaming up to 4K30frame/s) at less than 2W for doorbell cameras ...

At Embedded World in Nuremberg today, Texas Instruments announced dozens of Arm Cortex-M0+ based microcontrollers, designed to allow users to switch from device to device to trade performance for cost. “TI is building the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of Arm Cortex-M0+ based MCUs,” claimed TI MCU v-p Vinay Agarwal. Two be known as MSPM0, there are initially two sub-groups, one ...

AMD announced its 4th generation EPYC embedded processors at Embedded World today, using its ‘Zen 4’ architecture and aimed at embedded networking, security, firewalls and storage in cloud and enterprise computing, as well in factory floor industrial edge servers. There are 10 processors in the Embedded 9004 Series, made using a 5nm chip process, with 16 to 96 cores see ...