2024 Smartphones: A TOTAL COMPUTE SOLUTION?!

This week Arm has showcased its next generation smartphone cores and graphics. These designs are set to be the cornerstone of most 2024 flagship devices, but Arm is also explaining how they could be used in 'larger devices'.

What's new?

Cortex-X4
Cortex-A720
Cortex-A520
Immortalis-G720
Mali-G720
Mali-G620
DSU-120
+lots of other stuff

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[odin]

That's the shortest sponsor spot I've ever seen on YouTube

[scarletspidernz]

7:41 Totally just add a Letter P for Performance and A for Area

[movaxh]

720 naming will be a mess. I hope they rename it 720 and 725. A520 on A9.2 with SVE2, and everything else, plus all 3 being now 64-bit only, is also amazing. Good progress.

[loerwyl]

You got me up to speed very quickly with this video, nice work.

[WaszInformatyk]

Heavenly transitions 😉
I can't wait for limited series of potato chips with the flavor of... what would be the flavor?
Any ideas?

[smilingbutdeadinside]

A potato eating a silicon wafer? this has to be the most creative logo!!

[franciscolodix]

Hey Ian, I have a question. ARM mentions that X4 can be 40% more efficient than X3 at the same performance. Is that at the same process node? Thanks

[firexgodx]

I'm a computer vision engineer, and we really need smartphone cameras in a rugged form factor. Can you do a video about that?

[Candyapplebone]

Interesting how many different types of chips are coming out

[ramseyrodriguez]

Can you ask them why are compute-target ARM chips based on 3 year old IP? Even the “leader”, Qualcomm, only uses Cortex X1, and probably will use Cortex X2 for the Gen 4, when ARM will be releasing the X4. Why?

[patf]

The computational needs of inference are much less than training. But you knew that already.

[ikjadoon]

This was an excellent video. Would love to hear your thoughts on each core’s changes from the last generation. Or Substack, wherever.

[timwildauer]

6:20 What’s the trade off between more dies on a wafer vs more “dead space” making it more likely that defects aren’t on top of a transistor? My very uninformed understanding is that yield would be higher and meaning they don’t have to bin as many chips.

[OpsAeterna]

Ian you need to visit our country someday. Already met with Jim Keller in April!

[TechDunk]

The new shading mode could be very interesting for VR headsets

[ArbitraryConstant]

there's already a lot of performance differences depending on memory subsystem etc so I don't think there's any way to talk about the generic performance of an ARM core in a phone.

[janiszusevics]

Question.. Where does Apple chips fit into this? Is it a similar ordeal as with TSMC where Apple is a priority customer and will have access to these advancements first? Or does Apple not rely on Arm and have their own implementations on older architecture?

[Cuaks]

For me as competitive mobile gamer(pubg mobile), i hope SOC get more cheaper but stronger. So the smartphone manufacturer can cut price or give best price and preformance more better than now. Maybe only $100 can get a phone with SOC same performance as Snapdragon 870 maybe, now this SOC only on $300++ phone.

[soraaoixxthebluesky]

Where is M-series chip competitors from Qualcomm?

[simondj]

Nonetheless what’s the reason behind a 3 clusters of CPUs into a mobile Soc? I find it as a marketing ploy!

I would rather obtain for a SoC with 4 coresX4 and 4 cores A720 would be the perfect solution.