British semiconductor firm, ARM, offered a first look at what mobile chips on smartphones will look like in 2022 and beyond. The company offers different licenses for its intellectual property (IP), which these companies use to make their own custom architecture. It combines powerful performance clusters (or big cores) with efficiency oriented LITTLE cores, to make chips that strike the right balance for performance and power efficiency. In fact, ARM chips power the fastest supercomputer in the world today. Their usage is expected to increase significantly now, as companies such as Apple use ARM chips on their laptops, while Qualcomm, too, has designed PC chips based on ARM designs.

Source: Mint May 26, 2021 07:17 UTC