ARMs 64-bit Cortex-A57 Processor Has Been Taped-Out
ARM and TSMC today announced the first tape-out of an ARM Cortex-A57 processor on 16nm FinFET process technology. The Cortex-A57 processor is ARM’s highest performing processor, designed to further extend the capabilities of future mobile and enterprise computing, including compute intensive applications such as high-end computer, tablet and server products. This is the first milestone in the collaboration between ARM and TSMC to jointly optimize the 64-bit ARMv8 processor series on TSMC FinFET process technologies. The ARM Cortex-A57 was first announced in October 2012, so it took roughly six months to tape out the companies first 64-bit processor.
This first ARM Cortex-A57 processor implementation paves the way for our mutual customers to leverage the performance and power efficiency of 16nm FinFET technology, said Tom Cronk, executive vice president and general manager, Processor Division, ARM. The joint effort of ARM, TSMC, and TSMCs OIP design ecosystem partners demonstrates the strong commitment to provide industry-leading technology for customer designs to benefit from our latest 64-bit ARMv8 architecture, big.LITTLE processing and ARM POP IP across a wide variety of market segments.
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