Cortex-A73 will improve flagship battery life, mid-range performance

30 May, 2016
The new CPU design from ARM offers a performance boost to go with the power saving. It will also make octa-core mid-range A53 chipsets a thing of the past.

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Anonymous, 09 Feb 2017You know what's great? Responding to comments, like yours, ... moreGo on....
Demonstrate....

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    • 09 Feb 2017

    ssbatman21, 30 May 2016no it isn't ..... kyro has been very successful for qualco... moreYou know what's great? Responding to comments, like yours, and demonstrating why arrogance is such a bad thing.

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      • Anonymous
      • nmM
      • 12 Jun 2016

      Helio x30 should use Mali G71, maybe instead of MP4, it should use MP8-MP16.

        AnonD-523334, 01 Jun 2016It is not even released and u r delivering details about it... moreAnandtech, but I guess it's a crappy mobile trends site

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          • 01 Jun 2016

          funkboy, 31 May 2016would love to see a MediaTek version of this 2x A73 + 4x A5... moreI would like to see that as well.

          But they can't compete with everybody else starting from big.LITTTLE architecture(look at Helio X10: it's not that efficient as they would claim). Which is why their Helio X20 shied away from that arch and landed on a 3-fold platform called as 'big.Medium.LITTLE' with an emphasis on 'articulate gear shifting' efficiency.

          The reason, as some would infer, is that Snapdragons, Exynos, and Kirins managed to put great effort in securing their CPU software tweaks(even an overhaul) within aside from SoC as a whole. But with great effort comes with great time and money spent. Which is of course threatened Mediatek's great-but-still-cheap campaign.

          So, yeah, there's little chance we'd see that 2 a72 + 4 a53 config from them.

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            • 01 Jun 2016

            AnonD-523334, 01 Jun 2016But Bro, a35 doesn't exist. I don't know what a35 u r talki... moreIt depends on how you define "exist"

            1. If you mean exists as a smartphone product, there's none of course. It will be shipped by the year's end. There's an SoC though, the upcoming Mediatek Helio X30.

            2. If you mean exists as an a35 core itself, then I suppose that it's your first time hearing it. ARM introduced this core last November of 2015.

            If you are not convinced, type a35 on your search engine.

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              • 01 Jun 2016

              Adiyel, 31 May 2016A53s likely successor, but not truly, will be the A35. More... moreIt is not even released and u r delivering details about it. U must have read it on some crappy site which don't even know Mobile trends. There are many sites like that which "launch" laughable rumours. I'm not blaming you. And it is simply logical and also proved by qualcomm track record that successor to a53s will be a higher number than a53. And it will be more efficient and smaller die doesn't mean model no. Will decrease.

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                • 01 Jun 2016

                AnonD-541274, 31 May 2016I hope that this will not be the case. The surprise came... moreBut Bro, a35 doesn't exist. I don't know what a35 u r talking about.

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                  • 31 May 2016

                  would love to see a MediaTek version of this 2x A73 + 4x A53 concept. should really be a price/performance sweet spot.

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                    • 31 May 2016

                    They should have named it a75 or 77 because since the popular pair of a53 and a57, 3 is considered as efficient while 7 is performance. A75 would be better as it is an incremental upgrade.

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                      • 31 May 2016

                      Very detailed technical discussions... But all they want to say is it'll be more efficient and thus allow for higher clock speed aka performance, choose yourself if you want efficiency at same clock speed or same power usage at higher clock speed.

                      But more importantly, where is the successor to a53s? A57 updated to 72 then 73 but a53 never. It is time for a61.

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                        • AnonD-71867
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                        • 31 May 2016

                        LOL i too have a Quadcore cortex a5(SD200) on my HTC Desire 500(old phone). :P

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                          • 31 May 2016

                          Adiyel, 31 May 2016A53s likely successor, but not truly, will be the A35. More... moreI hope that this will not be the case.

                          The surprise came from the fact that a35 is almost on par with a53's caliber while having significantly low power usage. That and the fact that it is initially designed for wearables (smartwatches).

                          The a53 stayed longer(and longer) because it has been a good boy, but its room to evolve is taking the hit. I think ARM's codename 'Ananke' is the rumored successor to the a53 core.

                            AnonD-541274, 30 May 20166-core should have been the norm last year if not for that ... moreA53s likely successor, but not truly, will be the A35. More efficient, and much smaller. ipc for ipc, it uses less power than the A53, and at the same power use it can (if not clocked too high) out perform the A53. I may wait until we start seeing these archs in phones before I upgrade, honestly

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                              • 30 May 2016

                              Anonymous, 30 May 2016I think their attempt to get into an arena they clearly had... moreIntel got their rear-end handed to them in mobile by ARM.

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                                • 30 May 2016

                                AnonD-467869, 30 May 2016Maybe you weren't paying attention, but they're not leaving... moreI think their attempt to get into an arena they clearly had no place was their undoing.

                                Intel is good at squashing the competition and then monopolise the market. In true duopolies or in markets that many players competed they never did too well. For example their SSDs are great but are handily disposed by Samsung SSDs. Similar with Qualcomm modems, they make a fool out of Intel's modem despite the years of RnD and money that Intel threw.

                                Lastly it was expected to lose in mobiles because the apps there can also run on ARM SoCs into which they have no stake. They are a loser company that thrive in markets that they practically monopolise. For example when AMD started taking the upper hand in mid 00s Intel *payed* OEMs to use their chips. Once they threw AMD out of the game due to the low sales which lead to them selling their foundries, they proceeded into milking the PC market.

                                Believing into their own propaganda, I. E. that they are a talented company that can do well even in the face of competition undid them. Somebody in there should had said "that's good stuff for shareholders, but let's be real, we suck, better bully ourselves into a new market instead of trying to compete".

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                                  • 30 May 2016

                                  Anonymous, 30 May 2016Hard to take anything from them seriously tho, they have an... moreHow about that?
                                  http://www.androidauthority.com/intel-and-the-mobile-market-689064/

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                                    • 30 May 2016

                                    vasra, 30 May 2016@android modder Maybe you weren't paying attention, but ... moreMaybe you weren't paying attention, but they're not leaving mobile - they just discontinued the Broxton line for phones and tablets, along with some of their 3G and 4G modems. No decisions have been made on Atom. Apollo Lake will be rebranded to Pentium and Celeron. They also seem to be doubling down on mobile modems, which could be integrated into other SoCs in the future. And lastly, they've been quoted as "remaining committed to Android".

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                                      • 30 May 2016

                                      AnonD-137201, 30 May 2016And apparently they will die young... http://www.theverg... moreHard to take anything from them seriously tho, they have an agenda, they manage to put apple twice before samsung( once hinting at apple manufacturing its own chip as credence.)
                                      Sneak it an attack at samsung again, citing bada as an excuse, and I followed their story on s7 batman edition, to find, after samsung have deposed apple in the smartphone world, some berk ,sites, " in typically ludicrous samsung style". At least they didn't name their phone pathetically "i" phone. They must be controlled by apple like engadget, and lets face it, you could not take any serious leading from there either, remember their cumupance with the galaxy note.

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                                        • 30 May 2016

                                        AnonD-448401, 30 May 2016yes there is.intel has their own.yuou know that x86 and 64 ... moreIntel discontinued Atom in smartphone SoCs but still exist elsewhere like Pentium and Celeron(though hardly competing) . And it has an awful mixed-bag results when compared to ARM's. Their domain is really in PC and laptops.