www.eetimes.com, May. 04, 2021 –
About a month ago, Arm announced its next generation of architecture – V9. For the time being, the eighth iteration of the Arm architecture (ARMv8) is the most advanced architecture in the wild of system-on-chip (SoC) devices. We can expect a few leading SoC companies to begin the transition over the next year or so.
Since the v8 architecture was the mainstay for a decade, it will be interesting to look back to those early days in order to attempt to look forward at what some future v9 devices might look like over its lifespan.
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The Arm announcement came only a few weeks after its latest innovation on the ARMv8 platform hit the streets. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 was the first SoC to deploy the X1 core. Arm offered the X1 to select partners through the Cortex-X Custom (CXC – because we can never have too many acronnyms) Program.