After unveiling the competitive Cortex-A76 chip, ARM is expecting its new chip designs to eclipse the ability of the single-threaded performance of Intel.
ARM, which has been dominating the smartphone chips industry, will release the 7nm-architecture Deimos next year and the 5nm Hercules chip in 2020. Both Hercules and Deimos are based on the new A76 micro-design that features progressive refinements and supplemental updates for Austin Cores.
Earlier this May, ARM unwrapped the Cortex-A76 chip which can bolster the performance of a computer device by 35 percent. According to multiple sources, the Cortex-A76 system that operates up to 3GHz is believed to equal the single-thread performance of an Intel Core i5-7300U which runs at the maximum speed of 3.5GHz.
ARM, which builds and licenses chips for Qualcomm and Samsung, claims that their own Cortex-A76 product is expected to go neck-and-neck with Intel's Core i5 7300U since it utilizes an efficient 5 watts of power compared to the latter's 15 watts. It added that the performance of their A76 chip has been achieving a performance gain of 20 percent on average.
"If we look at projected performance for 3GHz A76, it sits right over at the high end of the performance range of the Core i5," said Ian Smythe who is responsible for the company's ecosystem marketing for client business.
Smythe revealed that ARM conducted a SPECINT2006 procedure and correlated the results through the CORE i5-7300U to its own performance metrics. He added that ARM will continue to create A76 chips on 7nm this year.
Still A Step Behind Intel
Regardless of its strong battery features, ARM-powered computers such as the Asus NovaGo is expected to suffer performance issues since applications adopting an arm chip can't operate natively to be emulated. In addition, the computing power of ARM's design is also underdeveloped than those of the Intel Core system.
The Asus NovaGo makes use of a 2017 Qualcomm chip that is based from the ARM's Cortex-A73 design, which was released in 2016. The Snapdragon 850, which was displayed in this year's Computex show, was the successor of the Snapdragon 845.
Both chips employ the A75 ARM design in distinct clock speeds. Smythe refused to comment on whether current customers such as HP and Asus would continue using ARM chips, but he is hoping that both PC companies are excited with the strength of their upcoming chips.
"We can now demonstrate where we are exactly in terms of performance. So are we going to be more aggressive? Yes, I think that's fair," Smythe closed.
