Arm’s Cortex A55

Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities. Because they’re less performance sensitive, 5-series cores tend to be superseded less often than their more sophisticated counterparts. Cortex A53 started out Arm’s 5-series lineup in 2012, and served across three generations of 7-series cores (A57, A72, and A73). Five years later, Arm refreshed the 5-series line with the Cortex A55. A55 then served as a little core partne...