ARM announces Cortex A35 core for wearables

ARM, the British designer behind the ARM architecture for processors, has announced the Cortex A35 core. The A35 consumes less energy than the current Cortex A53 and can therefore be used for processors that are suitable for wearables.

ARM presents the A35 as a successor to the A7, the core that Qualcomm has used, for example, for the quad-core variant of the Snapdragon 400, which can be found in many smartwatches. In contrast to the A7, Cortex A35 is a 64-bit microarchitecture. ARM claims that the power consumption is slightly lower compared to the Cortex A7.

According to the British company, A35 processors require 32 percent less energy compared to A53 models, Anandtech notes. According to ARM, the Cortex A35 processors have comparable performance to CPUs based on Cortex A7. They would not only be usable in wearables, but should also be usable in big.Little configurations with, for example, Cortex A72 cores or in tri-clusters with both Cortex A72 and A53 CPUs.

Processors based on Cortex A35 should be released at the end of next year and ARM claims to have already issued several licenses to companies. According to the British company, there will be more ‘ultra low power’ microarchitectures.