Arm, the technology company owned by the SoftBank Group Corp, has launched new products designed to enhance smartphone performance. During Computex in Taipei, Arm launched the Cortex-X4, the company’s fourth-generation Cortex-X core, which it claims is the fastest CPU it has created so far, with a 15% improvement on its predecessor, the Cortex-X3. Arm also introduced the new Arm Immortalis-G720, based on its fifth-generation GPU architecture, aimed at creating games with high geometry and real-time 3D applications. The company announced a new platform known as Arm Total Compute Solutions 2023, targeted at those building their own compute subsystems that can be integrated, configured, and validated to deliver a complete system.
Arm CEO Rene Haas said that Arm, which traditionally supplied IP, had built CPU, memory systems and compute blocks to assist system-on-chip designers. Arm has continued its partnership with TSMC, taping out the Cortex-X4 on the TSMC N3E process, which it claims is an industry first. Last month, Arm filed an initial public offering (IPO), aiming to raise between $8bn and $10bn on Nasdaq in what is set to be this year’s largest IPO.
