ARM Cortex-A510

The ARM Cortex-A510 is the successor to the ARM Cortex-A55 and the first ARMv9 high efficiency "LITTLE" CPU.^[1] It is the companion to the ARM Cortex-A710 "big" core. It is a clean-sheet 64-bit CPU designed by ARM Holdings' Cambridge design team.^[2]

The Cortex-A510 is a “LITTLE” CPU core focusing on high efficiency,^[3] bringing the following improvements from last gen:

• 3-wide in-order design, the Cortex-A55 was 2-wide.^[4]
• 3-wide fetch and decode front-end as well as 3-wide issue and execute on the back-end, which includes 3 ALU's.^[5]

• 35% performance uplift compared to Cortex-A55
• 20% more energy efficient than Cortex-A55
• 3x ML uplift^[1]

ARM announced a refresh for the Cortex-A510 CPU core on 28 June 2022 along with other CPU cores.

The refresh improved power efficiency by 5% and scalability from 8 cores to up to 12 cores.^[6] Additionally, the refresh could be configured with 32-bit support, whereas the original was 64-bit only.^[7]

"LITTLE" core

The Cortex-A510 CPU core is used in the following SoCs

• Qualcomm • Snapdragon 8 gen 1^[10] • Snapdragon 8+ gen 1^[11] • Snapdragon 8 gen 2^[12] • Snapdragon 7 gen 1^[13] • Snapdragon 7+ gen 2^[14]
• MediaTek • Dimensity 9200+ ^{[ 15 ]} • Dimensity 9200 ^{[ 16 ]} • Dimensity 9000+ ^{[ 17 ]} • Dimensity 9000 ^{[ 18 ]} • Dimensity 8300 • Dimensity 7200 ^{[ 19 ]}
• Samsung • Exynos 2200 ^{[ 20 ]}
• HiSilicon • Kirin 9000S ^{[ 21 ]}
• Google • Tensor G3 ^{[ 22 ]}