alt Hacker NewsI'm so glad we are finally seeing small cores, something to threaten the Cortex A7, which harkens back to 2011!!
But also: Cortex A35 is from 2015! And it's still just a trickle of these small application processor cores. Having a MMU enables so much more. Look at what Baochip and Xous are doing, with small cores but with MMU, for radically better interesting OS / systems architectures.
It just feels so cursed, is so beyond my surprise here well past half way through 202X that so many cores from early 201X are still not just alive but utterly dominant. Something has gone super super super wrong in the House of ARM!
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> But also: Cortex A35 is from 2015!
The pipeline from new ARM cores to shipping silicon is surprisingly long. Cortex-M85 was announced in 2022, and there's still almost nothing on the market that implements it.
As I have already mentioned in another comment, Cortex-A35 is not the replacement for Cortex-A7, but for the smaller and slower Cortex-A5. Because of that, Cortex-A35 is slower at the same clock frequency than Cortex-A7.
The successor of Cortex-A7 was Cortex-A53, which was followed by Cortex-A55, then by Cortex-A510, and so on, until the current Arm C1-Nano.
The line of Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A35, which includes Cortex-A32 and Cortex-A34, can be considered dead, because using so slow CPUs instead of the best Cortex-M or Cortex-R cores (like Cortex-M85 and Cortex-R82) does not make sense.