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Cortex is a family of specialized ARM microarchitectures designed by Arm for various edge market such as embedded and mobile. The Cortex family succeed Arm's classic cores with more specialized cores with highly targeted requirements

Overview

Cortex is a family of ARM cores that address a broad set of markets. First announced in 2004, Cortex cores have replaced Arm's classic cores with more market-specific variations. Cortex can be broadly categorized into three types of workloads: Applications, Real-time, Microcontroller (A.R.M).

• Cortex-A - Application processors. Designed for fully capable computers, running typical operating systems (Android, Windows, Linux, iOS). Those processors are found in anything from smartphones to tablets and laptops.
• Cortex-R - Real-time processors. Designed for real-time operating systems with very deterministic behavior. Those cores are typically less powerful than the A series and are used for things such as controllers, factory equipment, medical devices, and other machines.
• Cortex-M - Microcontrollers. Designed for ultra-low power, typically small factor and low-performance systems. Those are found in cost-sensitive devices and electronics, automated systems, and many other embedded devices.

Cores

Cortex-A

Year	Low-power Performance
2005	Cortex-A8
2006
2007	Cortex-A9
2008
	Ultra-low power	High-efficiency	Mainstream-performance	High-performance
2009	Cortex-A5
2010				Cortex-A15
2011		Cortex-A7
2012		Cortex-A53		Cortex-A57
2013			Cortex-A12
2014			Cortex-A17
2015	Cortex-A35			Cortex-A72
2016	Cortex-A32			Cortex-A73
2017		Cortex-A55		Cortex-A75
2018				Cortex-A76
2019				Cortex-A77
2020				Hercules
2021				Matterhorn

Cortex-R

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Cortex-M

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See also

• ARM Versions
• Neoverse