The 'always connected' pcs arm will be 2.5 times faster in 2020

ARM has shared part of the roadmap of those 'Always connected' computers that currently only run with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, also showing some expected performance projections on their way to 7nm and 5nm.

ARM PCs 'Always Connected' will increase their performance exponentially in the next two years

Currently the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 and Lenovo Yoga C630 laptops are powered by a Snapdragon 850 processor with a autonomy of approximately 24 hours. Based on SpecIntl 2K6, ARM / Snapdragon hopes to achieve the performance of a Core i5 7300 in a single thread with the next generation, and will probably exceed it. We know that Intel has had the Core i5 8200 series since January and that it has recently announced Whiskey Lake to put some pressure on this point.

The upcoming Snapdragon is expected to be based on 7nm Cortex A76 cores and slightly outperform Core i5 7300 performance. Intel definitely has faster processors than that, but the fact that Qualcomm and ARM can compete with them offering great autonomy, it is spectacular.

ARM said Deimos, the second-generation 7nm core expected to launch in 2019, is expected to be significantly faster compared to the first-generation Cortex A76 core, and even showed the projected performance of the 5nm Hercules core being expected for 2020.

According to ARM, the performance between Cortex A73 (Snapdragon 835) and Hercules 5nm shows an increase of 2.5 times. This is a huge leap, considering that the Cortex A73 kernel released in 2016 and massively available in 2017 was enough to give a decent Windows 10 'Always Connected' experience as promised.

With ARM being more competitive with its upcoming Always Connected laptop chips, we may see a new wave of notebooks that place special emphasis on battery life, which today offer more than 20 hours of interrupted use and approximately 30 days in Stand-By.

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