ARM unveils new Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU designs

Another year, another new ARM silicon design. At its annual TechDay event, the British semiconductor company announced the design blueprints of the new Cortex-A77 CPU core and the Mali-G77 GPU family.

Right off the bat, ARM claims the A77 design boasts a significant 20% performance improvement in instructions per clock (IPC) over the older A76 design. The chip-designer also said the new design has "laptop -class performance." Considering Qualcomm's newest 8cx processor - which it showed beating an Intel i5 ...