From PC World: With any luck, Arm’s new Lumex CPU platform may give us a hint at what to expect for upcoming Windows on Arm PCs: four tiers of CPU power, plus an improved ray-tracing engine and graphics upscaling.
Arm says that its new Lumex C1-series chips will deliver 25 percent more performance than the Cortex X925 series of processors it launched in May 2024. Like the X925, the latest Lumex C1 cores are being optimized with 3nm process technologies in mind, with physical implementations and foundry collaborations to speed customers to market.
(While Arm has hinted at building its own physical cores for years, however, company representatives would say only that it includes “near production-ready physical implementations for partners” and is “not a chip.”)
The Lumex platform is Arm’s brand for smartphones. PC-specific Arm chips will be branded as “Niva” under Arm’s new naming scheme, though they will share some common features with the Lumex cores. Qualcomm, which actually makes the Arm processors, uses the “Snapdragon” brand, which will almost certainly continue.
View: Full Article
