New ARM Cortex A35 architecture available

Today, ARM launches its new CPU architecture, Cortex A35. It will be mainly for low end smartphones, wearable devices, IoT devices. ARM Cortex A35 is based on ARMv8-A 64 bit architecture and will be used to replace old ARM Cortex A7 and A5.

ARM said Cortex A35 is the most power efficient processor, its power consumption is only 125mW. If adopting 28nm process technology and 1GHz frequency, its power consumption will reduce to 90mW. If keeping same power consumption and adopting 16nm or 14nm process, then its frequency can be over 2GHz.

Of course, it can also work with ARM Cortex A53, A57 or A72 to boost the performance of CPU.

Compared with Cortex A7, under same frequency and process technology, its power consumption is 10% lower, and performance is 6%-40% higher. If comparing with Cortex A53, its performance will be about 20% lower, but power consumption is 32% lower, and its size is also much smaller.

The first CPU with this ARM Cortex A35 may roll out at end of 2016.