Arm's supercharged Cortex-X2 CPU takes aim at Intel
Arm's supercharged Cortex-X2 CPU takes aim at Intel The new Cortex CPUs and Mali GPUs could power Windows laptops and tomorrow's Android flagships. Credit: Arm On Tuesday, Arm announced details of the first Cortex-X2 CPU and Mali-G710 GPU cores that will drive future Arm-based smartphones and PCs in 2022. In the latter category, Arm is already making fairly aggressive claims against Intel. Specifically, Arm claims that its new flagship “performance” core, the Cortex-X2, should be 40 percent faster in single-threaded performance than an Intel 11th-gen Core i5-1135G7 at 15W—e...