STMicro Unveils STM32MP2 Arm Cortex-A35/M33 MPU Family Starting with STM32MP25

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Suuupppeerrr interesting core and a ton of potential.

Also though, the ARM Cortex A35 is from 2015. There's literally no new core available from arm that ST Micro could have used. It's insane to me that the embedded world is perpetually stuck on seemingly ancient cores. This is unimagineable in most computing spaces, but somehow ARM keeps getting away with absurdly longlived & cores.

The Cortex A53 (2012) took a decade for the A55 to actually show up & replace it. Just absurdly shitty delivery. Incredibly fantastic steaming garbage.

RISC-V is still getting it's feet under it, but I hope very much we see actual iteration & advancement with some timeliness once the ecosystem bootstraps.

It's partly because all the shortcuts that modern CPU's make to be faster also tend to make them slightly less than deterministic, and less useful for real-time interaction, which embedded CPU's need to do.

This is an application processor, a Cortex-A series. Your comments do not apply to this core.

ARM does have a Cortex-R series which is for real time computing tasks.

There is no excuse. It's ghastly that ARM's track record is significantly below 2 cores/decade.

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