ARM Officially Releases A75 and A55 to Help China's Hass Caught Qualcomm

ARM has officially released its new generation of core A75 and A55. According to the current development trend, Huawei Hass will be the first mobile phone chip company to adopt these two cores. Kirin 970 is expected to be used for volume production in the second half of this year. On the chip, the chip's CPU and GPU performance are expected to surpass Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chip.

ARM explained with GeekBench 4 that the performance of the new high-performance core A75 is 1.34 times that of the previous-generation A73, and the low-performance, low-power core A55 is 1.21 times that of the previous-generation A53. Of course ARM also updated its GPU core. The generation of GPU core Mali-G72 is 40% higher than the previous generation G71.

According to the rhythm of Qualcomm, it is expected that new high-end chips will be released at the end of this year or early next year, and the mid-to-high-end chip Opteron 660 has just been released. It should not release new mid-to-high-end chips using the A75 core this year; MediaTek has released new models in the first half of the year. The high-end chip, the Helio X30, was not marketed until the second quarter because of delays in volume production of TSMC's 10nm process. In the third quarter, the new midrange chip helio P35 will be produced using TSMC's 12nm FinFET process. In such cases, it is expected to end at the end of the year. It will be possible to introduce high-end chips using the A75 core early next year.

Huawei Hass just kept up with the pace of ARM. In general, it will launch new high-end chips in the third quarter. As early as last year, it was rumored that it has been developing the A75 architecture codenamed "Ares" in the name of the ancient Greek god of war. The A75 is now officially released. The reason is believed that the planned Unicorn 970 will use this core. Of course, the chip will also use ARM's new low-power core A55 and GPU core Mali-G72.

Huawei HiSilior Kirin 960 released last year introduced the A73 core and GPU new core Mali-G71 released by ARM last year. At that time, the CPU performance of this chip was almost equal to that of Qualcomm's high-end chip, the Snapdragon 820, compared with the previous generation of GPU performance. Kirin 950 significantly increased by 180% or even beyond the Snapdragon 820, excellent performance so that the chip won the glory like the Kirin 920 to overtake the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801.

ARM has made great efforts in R&D on the GPU because it hopes to win opportunities in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and AR/VR. The excellent performance of the Mali G71 allows the outside world to pay attention to its R&D capabilities. Now it is a new generation of GPU core Mali. -G72 is nearly 40% better than G71, while Qualcomm's 835 adreno540 is only 25% higher than the previous generation's adreno530. Unicorn 970 is not a problem if it uses the Mali-G72 to reduce GPU performance in the GPU.

For today's emerging artificial intelligence and AR/VR, Huawei is also entering. Glory magic released last year has certain artificial intelligence. Glory V8 supports Huawei VR. The Kirin 970's GPU performance has been greatly improved will help Huawei Greater progress has been made in these two areas.

The VR market has gradually matured. It is evident from the fact that the company, which has always invested in mature businesses in the emerging market, has recently joined the VR battlefield. Huawei has always emphasized that the core technological advantages of enterprises have solved the core technical problems on high-end chips. Will increase investment in order to compete with high-tech companies around the world.

For Qualcomm, the increase in the core performance of the ARM public version will bring greater pressure. From 2014, it was unable to keep pace with MediaTek chip advancement using ARM's public-standard core in its own architecture research and development, and had to use the ARM public version core to launch the Snapdragon 810. This year, its high-end chip Snapdragon 835 also followed the previous generation's high-end The kryo autonomous architecture adopted by the chip Snapdragon 820 can only be realized by increasing the number of cores in order to improve performance.

After the launch of Unicorn 970, Qualcomm's next year's release of the Xiaolong 845 will face difficulties if it adopts an autonomous architecture to further enhance its performance. Therefore, there are rumors that it may use the ARM's public version of the core push Xiaolong 845, but that will fall to Huawei Hass is at the same level of competition, which is what it does not want.