ARM Cortex-X2

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ARM Cortex-X2
General information
Launched2021
Designed by ARM Ltd.
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate 2.85 GHz [1]   to 3.00 GHz [1]  
Cache
L1 cache 128 KiB (64 KiB I-cache with parity, 64 KiB D-cache) per core
L2 cache512–1024 KiB per core
L3 cache512 KiB – 8 MiB(optional)
Architecture and classification
Microarchitecture ARM Cortex-X2
Instruction set ARMv9.0-A
Products, models, variants
Product code name(s)
  • Matterhorn ELP
Variant(s)
History
Predecessor(s) ARM Cortex-X1
Successor(s) ARM Cortex-X3

The ARM Cortex-X2 is a central processing unit implementing the ARMv9-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings' Austin design centre as part of ARM's Cortex-X Custom (CXC) program. [2] It forms part of Arm's Total Compute Solutions 2021 (TCS21) along with Arm's Cortex-A710, Cortex-A510, Mali-G710 and CoreLink CI-700/NI-700. [3]

Contents

Architecture changes in comparison with ARM Cortex-X1

The processor implements the following changes: [4] [5] [6]

Performance claims:

Usage

See also

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