Today ARM announced their upcoming Cortex-A7 architecture, designed with both affordability and battery life in mind. It also has a multi-core A15 ready for next year, which will offer as much as 2.5GHz speeds with A9 like energy consumption, by using the 28nm production process.ARM holdings are the moving force behind Samsung’s Exynos, Apple’s A5, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon and Texas Instruments’ OMAP4, which are found in the top smartphones and tablets today.