Arm launches new Cortex-A78C processor promising improved gaming and productivity

Arms announced a new CPU variant this could be seen in notebook SoCs. the Cortex-A78C Arm is a variant of the high-end Cortex-A78 that will power the next generation of flagship smartphones.

The company had released the Cortex-A78 in May this year as a Cortex-A processor more bounty, which is supposed to offer a lasting 20% ​​performance improvement and a 50% increase energy saving compared to Cortex-A77

Last year.

While the núcleos Cortex-A78 are almost exclusively intended for smartphones, Arms says the new Cortex-A78C will power the next generation of mobile devices, such as always-on laptops.

Arms makes the announcement through a blog post

, who revealed that the new Cortex-A78C it will support up to 8 large groups of processor cores for “smoother multicore computing”. In comparison, the high-end Cortex-A78 from Arms, which should be part of the SoC of Snapdragon 875 smartphones Yes Qualcomm Samsung Exynos 1080, supports 4 large processor cores and 4 small processor cores (Cortex-A55) in Arm’s proprietary DynamIQ arrangement.

The company claims that the new, more flexible octa-core configuration of the Cortex-A78C can evolve multithreaded performance that would improve gaming and productivity. Like the Cortex-A78, its new C variant is also compatible with the recently released Mali-G78 GPU. The new processor also increases the L3 cache to 8MB, which could translate into better performance, especially when working with large data sets, the publication says.

Arm also says that the new Cortex-A78C processor enhances data and device security and that its Pointer Authentication Code (PAC) can dramatically reduce vulnerabilities that allow attackers to take control of software control flow. The company claims that it will help protect data even when installing third-party apps.

Arms you have not clearly indicated whether your new Cortex-A78C processor it will be part of the SoCs that will power laptops or mobile gaming devices in the short term. If that happens, it will be interesting to see how the Cortex-A78C in laptop processors compares to the performance of cores in Intel processors.