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65-787: (Redirected from Cortex-A72 ) Central processing unit ARM Cortex-A72 General information Launched 2016 Designed by ARM Holdings Cache L1 cache 80  KiB (48 KiB I-cache with parity, 32 KiB D-cache with ECC) per core L2 cache 512 KiB to 4  MiB L3 cache None Architecture and classification Technology node 16 nm Instruction set ARMv8-A Physical specifications Cores 1–4 per cluster, multiple clusters Products, models, variants Product code name Maya History Predecessor ARM Cortex-A57 Successor ARM Cortex-A73 The ARM Cortex-A72

130-547: A joint venture between Acorn Computers , Apple , and VLSI Technology . Acorn provided 12 employees, VLSI provided tools, Apple provided a US$ 3 million investment (equivalent to $ 7 million in 2023). Larry Tesler , Apple VP was a key person and he helped recruit the first CEO at the joint venture, Robin Saxby. The new company intended to further the development of the Acorn RISC Machine processor, which

195-614: A power electronics technology provider, as part of a strategic investment agreement between the two companies. Avago Technologies announced its agreement to acquire LSI Corporation in December 2013 for $ 6.6 billion. The acquisition helped move Avago Technologies away from specialized products and towards a more mainstream industry, which included chips, especially storage for data centers. The company sold its SSD controller business to Seagate Technology in May 2014. In August 2014,

260-579: A system on a chip (SoC). The Cortex-A72 was announced in 2015 to serve as the successor of the Cortex-A57 , and was designed to use 20% less power or offer 90% greater performance. Overview [ edit ] Pipelined processor with deeply out-of-order , speculative issue 3-way superscalar execution pipeline DSP and NEON SIMD extensions are mandatory per core VFPv4 Floating Point Unit onboard (per core) Hardware virtualization support Thumb-2 instruction set encoding reduces

325-549: A $ 5.5 billion price and was offered in cash. It was delayed for review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States . On 2 November 2017, Broadcom announced it would relocate its legal address from Singapore to Delaware, which would avoid the review. This action was linked to the parent company being renamed from Broadcom Limited to Broadcom Inc. The pre-2016-merger Broadcom, Broadcom Corporation , remains

390-448: A commitment not to enter into such agreements for seven years. In 2017, Broadcom filed patent suits against smart TV manufacturers. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of the smart TV manufacturers. In 2020, Broadcom sued Netflix over multiple patent infringements. Critics have argued that Broadcom is suing Netflix for being more successful, citing the declining number of traditional pay television subscribers due to

455-646: A core value of Arduino ... without any lock-in with the ARM architecture." Arduino intends to continue to work with all technology vendors and architectures. In October 2018, ARM Holdings partnered with Intel in order to share code for embedded systems through the Yocto Project . On 12 April 2023, ARM Holdings partnered with Intel Foundry Services to bring Arm SoCs to Intel's 18A process. On 20 October 2018, Arm unveiled Arm Mbed OS , an open source operating system for IoT . On 8 October 2019, Arm announced

520-629: A market value of $ 77 billion. Broadcom Corp. strengthened Avago Technologies' patent position significantly in sectors such as mobile, the data center, and the Internet of Things and made the company the ninth largest holder of patents among the top semiconductor vendors, according to an analysis by technology consulting firm LexInnova . According to the company's website, the transaction closed on 1 February 2016. In May 2016, Cypress Semiconductor announced that it will acquire Broadcom Corporation's full portfolio of IoT products for $ 550 million. Under

585-546: A new Partner Governance model for partners to collaborate on the future roadmap. Partners include: Analog Devices , Cypress , Maxim Integrated , Nuvoton , NXP , Renesas , Realtek , Samsung , Silicon Labs and u-blox . In November 2020, Arm spun out the entire IoT software division as Pelion, a separate but wholly owned subsidiary of Arm. In October 2022 the IoT services of Pelion were purchased by Izuma Networks, an Austin, Texas based startup. On 8 October 2019, Arm announced

650-521: A primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . It also had a secondary listing of American depositary receipts on New York's Nasdaq . However Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank Group made an agreed offer for Arm on 18 July 2016, subject to approval by Arm's shareholders, valuing the company at £24.3 billion. The transaction

715-421: A result of this hostile takeover." However, critics of the move stated that the decision was motivated by competitiveness more than security concerns. Broadcom withdrew its takeover bid two days after the executive order. Observers have stated that President Trump's decision was as consistent with the balance of trade objectives as it was with security concerns. Historically a semiconductor-based-only company,

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780-474: A wholly owned subsidiary of the renamed parent Broadcom Inc. In mid-November 2017, Broadcom proposed to purchase Qualcomm for US$ 130 billion, which was rebuffed by Qualcomm's board. The proposed hostile takeover, which was later revised to $ 117 billion, was blocked by the Trump administration by an executive order that cited national security concerns. Specifically, the Committee on Foreign Investment in

845-636: Is "a third processor architecture for building next-generation supercomputers", for clients such as the United States Department of Energy . Fujitsu (the supercomputer maker of June 2011 world's fastest K computer according to TOP500 ) announced at the International Supercomputing Conference in June 2016 that its future exascale supercomputer will feature processors of its own design that implement

910-470: Is a central processing unit implementing the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings ' Austin design centre. The Cortex-A72 is a 3-way decode out-of-order superscalar pipeline. It is available as SIP core to licensees, and its design makes it suitable for integration with other SIP cores (e.g. GPU , display controller , DSP , image processor , etc.) into one die constituting

975-619: Is a programmable Ethernet switch chip that has up to 10  Tbit/s switching capacity per device. Tomahawk 3 series supports high-density, standards-based 400GbE, 200GbE, and 100GbE switching and routing for hyperscale cloud networks. Broadcom divulged that it is bringing two variants of the Tomahawk-3 to market. The first can provide up to 12.8 Tbit/s total chip bandwidth and contains 256 integrated SerDes, supporting 32 ports at 400  Gbit/s , 64 ports at 200 Gbit/s , and 128 ports at 100 Gbit/s . The second variant of

1040-468: Is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2023, some 79 percent of Broadcom's revenue came from its semiconductor-based products and 21 percent from its infrastructure software products and services. Tan Hock Eng

1105-572: Is different from Wikidata ARM Holdings Arm Holdings plc (formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine ) is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge , England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM architecture family of instruction sets. It also designs other chips, provides software development tools under

1170-451: Is similar to those of fellow British design houses ARC International and Imagination Technologies , which have similarly been designing and licensing GPUs, CPUs, and SoCs, along with supplying tooling and various design and support services to their licensees. A characteristic feature of Arm processors is their low electric power consumption, which makes them particularly suitable for use in portable devices. Arm processors are used as

1235-682: Is the company's president and CEO . The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California . Avago Technologies Limited took the Broadcom part of the Broadcom Corporation name after acquiring it in January 2016. The ticker symbol AVGO which represented old Avago now represents the newly merged entity. The Broadcom Corporation ticker symbol BRCM was retired. At first the merged entity was known as Broadcom Limited , before assuming

1300-771: The ARM instruction set architectures , are used in all classes of computing devices (including in space ). Processors designed by Arm or by Arm licensees are used as microcontrollers in embedded systems , including real-time safety systems (cars' ABS ), biometrics systems ( fingerprint sensor ), smart TVs (e.g. Android TV ), all modern smartwatches (such as Qualcomm Toq ), and are used as general-purpose processors in smartphones, tablets, laptops , desktops (even for running traditional x86 Microsoft Windows programs ), servers and supercomputers / HPC , Systems, including iPhone smartphones, frequently include many chips, from many different providers, that include one or more licensed Arm cores, in addition to those in

1365-930: The ARM instruction set architectures , are used in all classes of computing devices. Arm has two lines of graphics processing units (GPUs), Mali , and the newer Immortalis (which includes hardware-based ray-tracing ). Arm's main CPU competitors in servers include IBM , Intel and AMD . Intel competed with ARM-based chips in mobile but Arm no longer has any competition in that space (however, vendors of actual ARM-based chips compete within that space). Arm's main GPU competitors include mobile GPUs from technology companies Imagination Technologies ( PowerVR ), Qualcomm ( Adreno ), and increasingly Nvidia , AMD , Samsung and Intel . While competing in GPUs, Qualcomm, Samsung and Nvidia all have combined their GPUs with Arm-licensed CPUs. Arm had

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1430-735: The ARMv8 architecture, rather than the SPARC processors used in earlier supercomputers. These processors will also implement extensions to the ARMv8 architecture equivalent to HPC-ACE2 that Fujitsu is developing with ARM Holdings. The Cray XC50-series supercomputer for the University of Bristol is called Isambard, named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel . The supercomputer is expected to feature around 160 nodes, each with two 32-core ThunderX2 processors running at 2.1 GHz. Peak theoretical performance of

1495-1291: The Cortex-A77 , Cortex-A65AE, Cortex-A76 , Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 . Cores for ARMv8-A include the Cortex-A73 , Cortex-A72 , Cortex-A32 , Cortex-A35 , Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 . ARM's client roadmap includes Hercules in 2020 and Matterhorn in 2021. Cores for 32-bit architectures include Cortex-A32, Cortex-A15, Cortex-A12 , Cortex-A17 , Cortex-A9 , Cortex-A8 , Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A5 , and older "Classic ARM Processors", as well as variant architectures for microcontrollers that include these cores: Cortex-R7 , Cortex R5 , Cortex-R4 , Cortex-M35P , Cortex-M33 , Cortex-M23 Cortex-M7 , Cortex-M4 , Cortex-M3 , Cortex-M1 , Cortex-M0+ , and Cortex-M0 for licensing. Companies often license these designs from Arm to manufacture and integrate into their own System on chip (SoC) with other components such as GPUs (sometimes Arm's Mali) or modem / radio basebands (for mobile phones). Arm offers multiple licensing programs for their cores. Arm also offers Artisan POP IP, where Arm partners with foundries to provide physical implementation, which allows faster time to market . In February 2016, Arm announced

1560-544: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission claimed that the company abused its monopoly power using restrictive contract terms and threats of retaliation against customers the company deemed "disloyal." The company faced a similar antitrust proceeding with the European Commission , which was settled after Broadcom committed to refrain from certain business practices. This included a commitment to suspend agreements containing exclusivity or quasi-exclusivity arrangements and

1625-574: The UK 's Competition and Markets Authority regulator announced it would investigate whether the Broadcom Inc. acquisition of VMware Inc. would "result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services". The European Commission also said it was investigating the proposed acquisition, and as a result, Broadcom and VMware extended

1690-495: The 10,240 cores and 40,960 threads is 172 teraFLOPS. The Vanguard project by Sandia National Laboratories is to deliver an exascale ARM machine. The first generation was called Hammer, it was based on X-Gene by Applied Micro . The second generation was called Sullivan was based Cavium 's ThunderXs processors. The third generation of the Sandia National Laboratories ' Vanguard project called Mayer

1755-651: The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) to collaborate and accelerate development of self-driving cars . Members include Arm, Bosch , Continental , Denso , General Motors , Nvidia , NXP and Toyota . In August 2020, Arm signed a three-year agreement with DARPA , the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, enabling DARPA researchers to use all of Arm's commercially available technology. In October 2001, Warren East

1820-604: The British parent company unsuccessfully tried to oust the chief executive of the subsidiary, who, however, managed to retain his position. A prevailing view emerged that the matter would negatively affect the pending approval by the Chinese regulators of the Softbank-Nvidia deal, as well as any public offering of Arm. In September 2021, despite Arm's denial, reports stated that the chief executive of Arm China, whom

1885-1050: The British parent had tried to dismiss, had publicly declared the "independence" of Arm China. In February 2022, Allen Wu, the CEO of Arm China, floated the idea of a public offering of the Chinese subsidiary in 2025. On 29 April 2022, it was reported that the CEO and legal representative of Arm China had finally been replaced according to legally recognized filings. However, Allen Wu continued to dispute this. Subsequently, in 2023, key staff left to form their own chip design startup Borui Jingxin , which competes with Arm China, particularly for engineers. Unlike most traditional microprocessor suppliers, such as Intel , Freescale (the former semiconductor division of Motorola , now NXP Semiconductors ) and Renesas (a former joint venture between Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric ), ARM only creates and licenses its technology as intellectual property (IP), rather than manufacturing and selling its own physical CPUs , GPUs, SoCs or microcontrollers. This model

1950-545: The Built on Arm Cortex Technology licence often shortened to Built on Cortex (BoC) licence. This licence allows companies to partner with Arm and make modifications to Arm Cortex designs. These design modifications will not be shared with other companies. These semi-custom core designs also have brand freedom, for example Kryo 280 . In addition to licences for their core designs and BoC licence, Arm offers an "architectural licence" for their instruction set architectures , allowing

2015-670: The DS-5, RealView and Keil brands, and provides systems and platforms , system-on-a-chip (SoC) infrastructure and software. As a "holding" company, it also holds shares of other companies. Since 2016, it has been majority owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group . While ARM CPUs first appeared in the Acorn Archimedes , a desktop computer , today's systems include mostly embedded systems , including ARM CPUs used in virtually all modern smartphones . Processors based on designs licensed from Arm, or designed by licensees of one of

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2080-432: The Tomahawk-3 has 160 of the 256 SerDes available and delivers 8 Tbit/s of aggregate bandwidth. Broadcom is suggesting 80 ports at 100 Gbit/s ; or 48 ports at 100 Gbit/s plus either 8 ports at 400 Gbit/s or 16 ports at 200 Gbit/s ; or 96 ports at 50 Gbit/s plus either 8 ports at 400 Gbit/s or 16 ports at 200 Gbit/s . The Tomahawk 4 reached a speed of 25.6 Tbit/s while

2145-490: The United States expressed concerns. Broadcom, then headquartered in Singapore, was considered too close to China and chipmaker Huawei . "A shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the United States," CFIUS said. "While the United States remains dominant in the standards-setting space currently, China would likely compete robustly to fill any void left by Qualcomm as

2210-425: The acquisition of CA Technologies. On 9 August 2019, news sources reported that Broadcom had decided to acquire the enterprise security business of Symantec Corporation (the consumer software portion of which is now known as Gen Digital ) for $ 10.7 billion in cash. The deal continued Broadcom's push into software critical for corporate infrastructure. And on 4 November 2019, Broadcom announced that it had completed

2275-504: The acquisition of the business, as well as the Symantec name and brand. In 2019, Broadcom was announced the fifth best performing stock of the 2010s, with a total return of 1,956%. On January 17, 2018, it was reported that the FTC had been investigating Broadcom for several months in regard to its anti-competitive tactics while negotiating with customers. In October 2019, Broadcom

2340-564: The company at £23.4 billion (US$ 32 billion). The transaction was completed on 5 September 2016. In 2017, a 25% stake of Arm was transferred to the SoftBank Vision Fund , which received investment from the Saudi sovereign fund . American technology company Nvidia announced plans on 13 September 2020 to acquire ARM from SoftBank, pending regulatory approval, for a value of US$ 40 billion in stock and cash, which would have been

2405-688: The company filed an initial public offering of $ 400 million. In October 2008, Avago Technologies acquired Infineon Technologies' Munich-based bulk acoustic wave business for €21.5 million. On 6 August 2009, Avago Technologies went public on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol AVGO. Avago Technologies announced its agreement to acquire CyOptics, an optical chip and component supplier, for $ 400 million in April 2013. The acquisition aimed to expand Avago Technologies' fiber optics product portfolio. In October 2013, Avago Technologies invested $ 5 million in Amantys,

2470-493: The company following the offering. SoftBank Group sold more than half of Arm China in 2018 to a local consortium consisting of various parties including China Investment Corp. and the Silk Road Fund , effectively relinquishing majority ownership of its Chinese subsidiary to a group of investors with ties to the Chinese state. From 2020, a discord between Arm and the effective owners of Arm China became visible after

2535-653: The company was the ninth-largest semiconductor company. Avago Technologies agreed to sell LSI's Axxia Networking business to Intel for $ 650 million. The company also agreed to buy PLX Technology , an integrated circuits designer, for $ 309 million. In February 2015, it was announced that Avago Technologies Limited had reached an agreement to acquire Emulex Corporation for $ 8 per share in cash. On 28 May 2015, Avago announced that it would buy Broadcom Corporation for $ 37 billion ($ 17 billion cash and $ 20 billion in shares). The combined company, which would be named Broadcom Ltd., would have annual revenue of $ 15 billion and

2600-1289: The data center (mainframes), networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets. Common applications for its products include: data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones, base stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, displays, and mainframe operations and management, and application software development. Broadcom's core technologies and franchise products include networking devices, optical technologies, network interface controllers and data storage. Vendors have included Broadcom NICs in their products. For example, select Dell PowerEdge blade servers have Broadcom-powered Ethernet port adapters as an add-in card. Other vendors such as Apple , Hewlett Packard Enterprise , and Raspberry Pi also use Broadcom NICs. In April 2017, Google's Project Zero investigated Broadcom's SoC WiFi stack and found that it lacked "all basic exploit mitigations - including stack cookies, safe unlinking and access permission protection," allowing "full device takeover by Wi-Fi proximity alone, requiring no user interaction." Numerous smartphones, such as by Apple, Samsung and Google were affected. Jericho2

2665-552: The deal to proceed. The transaction closed on November 22, 2023. On completion, CEO Hock Tan announced that the company would relocate its headquarters in San Jose to the VMware campus in Palo Alto . In February 2024, Broadcom sold the end-user computing division, which it inherited from the VMware acquisition, to KKR for $ 4   billion. Broadcom sells a range of semiconductor and infrastructure software applications that serve

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2730-530: The deal, Cypress acquires Broadcom's IoT products and intellectual property for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee connectivity, as well as Broadcom's WICED platform and SDK for developers. The deal combined Broadcom's developer tools and connectivity technologies for IoT devices with Cypress' own programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) products that provide memory, computing and graphics processing for low-power devices. In 2016, Broadcom proposed merging with Brocade Communications Systems . The acquisition proposal included

2795-576: The failure of the Qualcomm bid led Broadcom and its CEO to look at acquiring infrastructure software as an alternative way of growing in size. On 11 July 2018, news sources reported that Broadcom and CA Technologies agreed on terms for an $ 18.9 billion acquisition. CA Technologies, formerly known as Computer Associates, was a longtime giant in software for mainframe computers that had expanded its offerings into software for cloud computing . And on 5 November 2018, Broadcom announced that it had completed

2860-424: The largest in the technology sector, received global regulatory scrutiny, including from China, which approved the deal with specific conditions. These conditions require VMware's server software to be compatible with local hardware and not restrict customers from using Broadcom's hardware products. Despite concerns over rising China-U.S. tensions, the approval from China, which was the last regulatory hurdle, allowed

2925-602: The largest semiconductor acquisition to that date. SoftBank Group would acquire slightly less than a 10% stake in Nvidia, and ARM would maintain its headquarters in Cambridge. There was opposition to the deal, including national security concerns from the UK and competition concerns from fellow tech companies such as Google , Microsoft and Qualcomm , whose chips in use or on sale heavily rely on Arm's intellectual property. It

2990-492: The licensees to design their own cores that implement one of those instruction sets. An Arm architectural licence is more costly than a regular Arm core licence. The Financial Times reported in March 2023 that Arm had planned to charge the licensees royalties based on the value of the device, instead of the prior model based on the chip's value. Processors based on designs licensed from Arm, or designed by licensees of one of

3055-740: The main Arm-based processor. Arm's core designs are also used in chips that support many common network-related technologies in smartphones: Bluetooth , WiFi and broadband , in addition to corresponding equipment such as Bluetooth headsets , 802.11ac routers , and network providers' cellular LTE . In 2011, Arm renewed a five-year, US$ 5 million research partnership with University of Michigan , which extended their existing research partnership to 2015. This partnership would focus on ultra-low energy and sustainable computing . In October 2017, Arduino announced its partnership with ARM. The announcement said, in part, "ARM recognized independence as

3120-655: The main CPU for most mobile phones many PDAs and handhelds , like the Apple iPod and iPad , and computer games and as well as many other applications, including GPS navigation devices , digital cameras and televisions . The world's second fastest supercomputer (previously fastest) in 2022, the Japanese Fugaku is based on Arm AArch64 architecture. The supercomputer maker Cray has added "ARM Option" (i.e. CPU blade option, using Cavium ThunderX2 ) to their XC50 supercomputers, and Cray claims that ARM

3185-437: The newer Immortalis (with hardware-based ray-tracing ). In addition, it offers Ethos neural processing units (NPUs), Corelink/CoreSight System/SoC IP, and TrustZone/CryptoCell/SecurCore Security IP. Arm offers several microprocessor core designs that have been "publicly licensed" for its newer "application processors" (non-microcontroller) used in such applications as smartphones and tablets. Cores for ARMv8.2-A include

3250-459: The original Acorn Archimedes and was one of the first RISC processors used in small computers. However, when the company was incorporated in 1990, what 'ARM' stood for changed to "Advanced RISC Machines." According to Steve Furber the name was changed at the behest of Apple, which did not wish to have the name of a competitor in the name of the company. At the time of the IPO in 1998, the company name

3315-432: The planned completion date out to May 26, 2023. On May 19, 2023, as both UK and EU regulators had yet to complete their investigations, the completion date was formally extended to August 26, 2023, and was later further extended to as late as November 26, 2023. On November 21, 2023, Broadcom Inc. announced its plan to finalize the $ 69 billion acquisition of VMware Inc . on the following Wednesday. This acquisition, one of

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3380-577: The present name in November 2017. In October 2019, the European Union issued an interim antitrust order against Broadcom concerning anticompetitive business practices which allegedly violate European Union competition law . In May 2022, Broadcom announced an agreement to acquire VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $ 69 billion. The acquisition was closed on November 22, 2023. The company that would later become Broadcom Inc.

3445-503: The rise of streaming services. The Leichtman Research Group calculated that the largest pay TV providers in the U.S. – representing about 95% of the market – lost about 4,915,000 net video subscribers in 2019. Regular customers each pay $ 231 a year for their boxes, totaling almost $ 20 billion per year in profit for the cable industry. On January 7, 2020, Accenture PLC agreed to acquire Symantec's 300-person cybersecurity services division from Broadcom. In February 2020, Broadcom announced

3510-11477: The size of 32-bit programs with little impact on performance. TrustZone security extensions Program Trace Macrocell and CoreSight Design Kit for unobtrusive tracing of instruction execution 32 KiB data (2-way set-associative) + 48 KiB instruction (3-way set-associative) L1 cache per core Integrated low-latency level-2 (16-way set-associative) cache controller, 512 KB to 4 MB configurable size per cluster 48-entry fully associative L1 instruction translation lookaside buffer (TLB) with native support for 4 KiB, 64 KiB, and 1 MB page sizes 32-entry fully associative L1 data TLB with native support for 4 KiB, 64 KiB, and 1 MB page sizes 4-way set-associative of 1024-entry unified L2 TLB per core, supports hit-under-miss Sophisticated branch prediction algorithm that significantly increases performance and reduces energy from misprediction and speculation Early IC tag –3-way L1 cache at direct-mapped power* Regionalized TLB and μBTB tagging Small-offset branch-target optimizations Suppression of superfluous branch predictor accesses Chips [ edit ] Broadcom BCM2711 (used in Raspberry Pi 4 ) Qualcomm Snapdragon 650, 652, and 653 NXP i.MX8, Layerscape LS1026A/LS1046A, LS2044A/LS2084A, LS2048A/LS2088A, LX2160A/LX2120A/LX2080A, LS1028A Texas Instruments Jacinto 7 family of automotive and industrial SoC processors. Rockchip RK3399 AWS Graviton See also [ edit ] ARM Cortex-A57 , predecessor ARM Cortex-A73 , successor Comparison of ARMv8-A cores , ARMv8 family References [ edit ] ^ "Cortex-A72 Processor" . ARM Holdings . Retrieved 2014-02-02 . ^ Frumusanu, Andrei (3 February 2015). "ARM Announces Cortex-A72, CCI-500, and Mali-T880" . Anandtech . Retrieved 29 March 2017 . ^ Frumusanu, Andrei (23 April 2015). "ARM Reveals Cortex-A72 Architecture Details" . Anandtech . Retrieved 29 March 2017 . ^ "Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $ 35" . Raspberry Pi . 2019-06-24 . Retrieved 2019-06-24 . 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V/10 Amlogic AML8726, MX, M6x, M801, M802/S802, S812, T86 x Apple A5 , A5X Broadcom VideoCore BCM21xxx, BCM28xxx Freescale i.MX6 HiSilicon K3V2 , 910's InfoTM iMAPx912 Leadcore LC1810, LC1811 Marvell Armada 1500 mini MediaTek MT65xx Nvidia Tegra , 2 , 3 , 4i Nufront NuSmart 2816M, NS115, NS115M Renesas EMMA EV2, R-Car H1, RZ/A Rockchip RK292 x , RK30 xx , RK31 xx Samsung Exynos 4 421 x , 441 x ST-Ericsson NovaThor Telechips TCC8803 Texas Instruments OMAP 4 Texas Instruments Sitara AM4xxx VIA WonderMedia WM88x0, 89x0 Xilinx Zynq-7000 ZiiLABS ZMS-20, ZMS-40 Cortex-A15 Allwinner A80 HiSilicon K3V3 MediaTek MT8135/V Nvidia Tegra 4 , K1 Renesas R-Car H2 Samsung Exynos 5 52 xx , 54 xx Texas Instruments OMAP 5 , DRA7xx, AM57xx Texas Instruments Sitara AM5xxx Cortex-A17 MediaTek MT6595, MT5595 MStar 6A928 Rockchip RK3288 Others Cortex-A12 ARMv7-A compatible Apple A6 , A6X , S1 , S1P , S2 , S3 Broadcom Brahma-B15 Marvell P4J Qualcomm Snapdragon S1, S2, S3, S4 Plus, S4 Pro, 600, 800 ( Scorpion , Krait ) ARMv8-A Others Cortex-A32 Application processors (64-bit) ARMv8-A Cortex-A35 NXP i.MX8X MediaTek MT6799, MT8516 Rockchip RK3308 Cortex-A53 Actions GT7, S900, V700 Allwinner A64, H5, H64, R18 Altera Stratix 10 Amlogic S9 Family, T96 x Broadcom BCM2837 EZchip TILE-Mx100 HiSilicon Kirin 620 , 650, 655, 658, 659 , 930, 935 Marvell Armada PXA1928, Mobile PXA1908/PXA1936 MediaTek MT673 x , MT675 x , MT6761V , MT6762 / V , MT6763T , MT6765 / G/H , MT6795 , MT8161, MT8163, MT8165, MT8732, MT8735, MT8752 NXP ARM S32 , QorIQ LS1088, LS1043 , i.MX8M Qualcomm Snapdragon 215 , 410, 412, 415, 425, 427, 429, 430, 435, 439, 450 , 610, 615, 616, 617, 625, 626, 630 Renesas RZ/V2M Rockchip RK3328, RK3368 Samsung Exynos 7570, 7578, 7580, 7870, 7880 Texas Instruments Sitara AM6xxx UNISOC SC9820E , SC9832E, SC9860/GV Xilinx ZynqMP Cortex-A57 AMD Opteron A1100-series NXP QorIQ LS20xx Nvidia Tegra X1 and Tegra X2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and 810 Samsung Exynos 7 5433, 7420 HiSilicon Kirin Hi1610 and Hi1612 Cortex-A72 AWS Graviton Broadcom BCM2711 HiSilicon Kirin 950, 955 , Kunpeng 916 MediaTek MT6797/D/T/X , MT8173, MT8176, MT8693 MStar 6A938 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650, 652, 653 Rockchip RK3399 NXP QorIQ LS2088 , QorIQ LS1046A , QorIQ LX2160A , QorIQ LS1028A , i.MX8 Cortex-A73 Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 , 632, 636, 660, 662, 665, 680, 685 , 6s 4G Gen 1 , 835 Samsung Exynos 7872, 7884, 7885, 7904, 9609, 9610, 9611 HiSilicon Kirin 710 , 960 , 970 MediaTek MT6771/V , MT6799 , MT8183, MT8788 Amlogic S922X Others Cortex-A34 ARMv8-A compatible Ampere eMAG Apple A7 , A8 , A8X , A9 , A9X , A10 , A10X Applied Micro X-Gene Cavium ThunderX Nvidia Tegra K1 ( Denver ), Tegra X2 ( Denver2 ) Qualcomm Kryo , Falkor Samsung Exynos M1 (Mongoose), M2 (Mongoose) ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.1-A compatible Cavium ThunderX2 ARMv8.2-A Cortex-A55 Allwinner A523 Samsung Exynos 850 UNISOC SC9863/A, T603 Cortex-A75 Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 , 710, 712 , 845 , 850 Samsung Exynos 9820, 9825 MediaTek MT6769H/T/V/Z , MT6768, MT6779V UNISOC T310, T606, T610, T615, T616, T618, T619, T620, T700, T710 , T740 Cortex-A76 Allwinner A733 Google Tensor HiSilicon Kirin 810, 820 , 980, 985 , 990 Qualcomm Snapdragon 480(+) , 675, 678 , 720G, 730(G), 732G, 765(G), 768G , 855(+), 860 , 7c (Gen 2), 8c, 8cx (Gen 2) Microsoft SQ1 and SQ2 MediaTek MT6781, MT6785V, MT6789 , MT6833V/P, MT6853V/T , MT6873, MT6875 , Dimensity 6020, 6080, 6100+, 6300(+) , MT8192 Samsung Exynos 990 UNISOC T750, T760, T765, T770, T820 Cortex-A77 MediaTek Dimensity 1000(+) Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 , 750G , 865(+), 870 HiSilicon Kirin 9000 Samsung Exynos 880 , 980 Cortex-A78 Google Tensor G2 MediaTek MT6877, MT6878 , MT6879, MT6891, MT6893 , Dimensity 7020, 7025(Ultra), 7030, 7050, 7300(Energy/X) , 8000, 8020, 8050, 8100, 8200 , Kompanio 900T, 1200, 1380, 1300T Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1, 4(s) Gen 2 , 695 , 6 Gen 1, 6(s) Gen 3 , 778G(+), 780G, 782G , 888(+) Samsung Exynos 1080, 1280, 1330, 1380 , 2100 Cortex-X1 Google Tensor , Tensor G2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888(+) Samsung Exynos 2100 Neoverse N1 Ampere Altra, Altra Max AWS Graviton2 Others Cortex-A65, Cortex-A65AE, Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A78C, Cortex-X1C, Neoverse E1 ARMv8.2-A compatible Apple A11 Fujitsu A64FX HiSilicon TaiShan v110 Nvidia Tegra Xavier ( Carmel ) Samsung Exynos M3 (Meerkat), M4 (Cheetah), M5 (Lion) ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.3-A compatible Apple A12 , A12X/A12Z , S4 , S5 Marvell ThunderX3 ARMv8.4-A Neoverse V1 AWS Graviton3 ARMv8.4-A compatible Apple A13 , S6 , S7 , S8 ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.5-A compatible Apple A14 , M1 ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.6-A compatible Apple A15 , A16 , A17 , M2 , M3 ARMv8.7-A ARMv8.7-A compatible Qualcomm Oryon ARMv9.0-A Cortex-A510 Google Tensor G3 MediaTek Dimensity 7200 (Pro/Ultra) , 8300 (Ultra) , 9000/9000+, 9200 Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, 7 Gen 3, 7s/7+ Gen 2 , 8(+) Gen 1 , 8 Gen 2 Samsung Exynos 2200 Cortex-A710 MediaTek Dimensity 9000/9000+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, 7 Gen 3, 7s/7+ Gen 2 , 8(+) Gen 1 , 8 Gen 2 Samsung Exynos 2200 Cortex-A715 Google Tensor G3 MediaTek Dimensity 7200 (Pro/Ultra) , 8300 (Ultra) , 9200 Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 , 8 Gen 2 Cortex-X2 MediaTek Dimensity 9000/9000+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s/7+ Gen 2 , 8(+) Gen 1 Samsung Exynos 2200 Cortex-X3 Google Tensor G3 MediaTek Dimensity 9200/9200+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Neoverse N2 Alibaba YiTian 710 Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 Neoverse V2 AWS Graviton4 Google Axion Nvidia Grace ARMv9.2-A Cortex-A520 Google Tensor G4 Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s/7+ Gen 3 , Snapdragon 8(s) Gen 3 Samsung Exynos 2400 Cortex-A720 Google Tensor G4 MediaTek Dimensity 9300(+) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s/7+ Gen 3 , Snapdragon 8(s) Gen 3 Samsung Exynos 2400 Cortex-X4 Google Tensor G4 MediaTek Dimensity 9300(+) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 , Snapdragon 8(s) Gen 3 Samsung Exynos 2400 Cortex-X925 MediaTek Dimensity 9400(+) Neoverse N3 - Neoverse V3 - ARMv9.2-A compatible Apple A18 Apple M4 Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ARM_Cortex-A72&oldid=1241874984 " Category : ARM 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3575-454: The world's first WiFi 6E client device, the BCM4389. In early 2020, Raspberry Pi inc revealed that their new boards would have a Broadcom BCM2711 chip. In May 2022, Broadcom announced their deal to acquire the virtualization and cloud computing software vendor VMware for $ 61 billion in a combination of cash and stock, with Broadcom assuming $ 8 billion in VMware debt. In November 2022,

3640-624: Was also being battled by Arm China, its subsidiary, a majority stake of which was held by Chinese investors. The acquisition was initially scheduled to conclude before the end of 2022 per the contract. However, the European Commission , the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the US Federal Trade Commission raised completion concerns focusing on Arm's role within Nvidia, while the UK government also raised concerns about national security . The merger attempt

3705-659: Was appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of Arm Holdings. In the 2011 financial year, East received a total compensation of £1,187,500 from ARM, comprising a salary of £475,000 and a bonus of £712,500. In May 2013, president Simon Segars took over as CEO. In March 2014, former Rexam chairman Stuart Chambers succeeded John Buchanan as chairman. Chambers, a non-executive director of Tesco and former chief executive of Nippon Sheet Glass Group, had previously worked at Mars and Royal Dutch Shell. On 8 February 2022, Rene Haas succeeded Segars as CEO with immediate effect, with Segars leaving Arm. Broadcom Broadcom Inc.

3770-422: Was based on pre-production ThunderX2. The fourth generation also based on ThunderX2 is called Astra and was slated to become operational by November 2018. ARM968E-S was used to build the neuromorphic supercomputer, SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture). Arm has four lines of central processing units (CPUs)/processors: It also has two lines of graphics processing units (GPUs): Mali , and

3835-401: Was changed to "ARM Holdings", often just called ARM like the processors. On 1 August 2017, the styling and logo were changed. The logo is now all lowercase ('arm') and other uses of the name are in sentence case ('Arm'). The company was founded on 5 November 1990 as Widelogic Limited but this was rapidly changed, on 3 December 1990, to Advanced RISC Machines Limited and structured as

3900-510: Was completed on 5 September 2016. A planned takeover deal by Nvidia, announced in 2020, collapsed in February 2022, with SoftBank subsequently deciding to pursue an initial public offering on the Nasdaq in 2023, valuing Arm at US$ 54.5   billion. The acronym ARM was first used in 1983 and originally stood for "Acorn RISC Machine". Acorn Computers ' first RISC processor was used in

3965-697: Was established in 1961 as HP Associates , a semiconductor products division of Hewlett-Packard . The division separated from Hewlett-Packard as part of the Agilent Technologies spinoff in 1999. KKR and Silver Lake Partners acquired the Semiconductor Products Group of Agilent Technologies in 2005 for $ 2.6 billion and formed Avago Technologies. Avago Technologies agreed to sell its I/O solutions unit to PMC-Sierra for $ 42.5 million in October 2005. In August 2008,

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4030-523: Was eventually cancelled in February 2022 due to the aforementioned regulatory pressure and hurdles. Arm filed for an IPO on 21 August 2023 on the Nasdaq, rather than the LSE. A few days earlier, SoftBank Group bought back the 25% stake from Vision Fund for around $ 16 billion, valuing Arm at over $ 64 billion. Arm went public on 14 September 2023 raising $ 4.87 billion at a $ 54.5 billion valuation, with SoftBank continuing to own roughly 90% of

4095-576: Was first listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Nasdaq in 1998 and by February 1999, Apple's shareholding had fallen to 14.8%. In 2010, ARM joined with IBM , Texas Instruments , Samsung , ST-Ericsson (since dissolved) and Freescale Semiconductor (now NXP Semiconductors ) in forming a non-profit open source engineering company, Linaro . Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group made an agreed offer for ARM on 18 July 2016, subject to approval by ARM's shareholders, valuing

4160-695: Was ordered by the European Union to stop allegedly anticompetitive practices. In 2021, Broadcom agreed to settle an antitrust complaint which claimed it had abused its monopoly power through restrictive contract terms and threats of retaliation against non-compliant customers. Such contract terms stifle innovation and harm competition in the global supply market. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that Broadcom's contract terms with six main customers would "create serious and irreversible harm to competition" if no action were taken. In 2021, Broadcom agreed to settle an antitrust complaint, in which

4225-566: Was originally used in the Acorn Archimedes and had been selected by Apple for its Newton project. Its first profitable year was 1993. The company's Silicon Valley and Tokyo offices were opened in 1994. ARM invested in Palmchip Corporation in 1997 to provide system on chip platforms and to enter into the disk drive market. In 1998, the company changed its name from Advanced RISC Machines Ltd to ARM Ltd . The company

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