ARM's big.LITTLE processing combo, which pairs a Cortex A-15 with an A-7, has been adopted by five users - Renesas, Samsung, CSR, Fujitsu and MediaTek, ARM announced at MWC today.
ARM says the technology saves up to 70% of processor energy consumption in common mobile workload tasks, essential as the performance of the smartphone has jumped by 60x since 2000 and 12x since 2008.
"big.LITTLE processing is the next logical extension after symmetric multi-processing to increase performance in a mobile device within the same power budget," says MediaTek's CMO Johan Lodenius.
"When smartphones and tablets are evolving into the user's primary compute device, Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa, as the industry-first big.LITTLE enabled application processor, will drive innovation by handling diverse mobile workloads while also being optimized for power consumption," says Samsung vp Tae-Hoon Kim.