“5G will revolutionise mobile communications as it delivers the ability to increase data rates significantly, offering a far better mobile experience,” said James McNiven, general manager of ARM’s CPU Group. “The Cortex-R8 is the most powerful real-time CPU available and its unrivalled performance will make it instrumental in the creation of 5G modems. It will form the communications heart of future smartphones, tablets, connected cars and IoT.”
Amongst the R8’s features are an 11 stage pipeline, out of order execution and up to 2Mbyte of memory per core. Users can synthesise the device with from one to four cores, with the ability to power down individual cores according to workload.
ARM says its silicon partners have begun design work and that SoCs based on the Cortex-R8 are expected to be available in 2016.
