Leakster: ARM's new prime CPU core will improve IPC to run more efficiently

Yesterday, MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 surfaced on Geekbench, which was our first brush with ARM’s new prime core. It is codenamed “Travis” and no, it wasn’t running at 4GHz, just 3.23GHz. Travis is not official yet, but leakster Digital Chat Station reports that it will be unveiled in September. The key metric for flagship chips will become IPC, “instructions per clock cycle”, according to DCS. This may spell the end of the gigahertz race on mobile. The simplest explanation of IPC is that a CPU with double the IPC needs half the clock speed to do the same amount of work. Reality is not so...

Jun 17, 2025 - 23:10

Leakster: ARM's new prime CPU core will improve IPC to run more efficiently

Yesterday, MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 surfaced on Geekbench, which was our first brush with ARM’s new prime core. It is codenamed “Travis” and no, it wasn’t running at 4GHz, just 3.23GHz. Travis is not official yet, but leakster Digital Chat Station reports that it will be unveiled in September. The key metric for flagship chips will become IPC, “instructions per clock cycle”, according to DCS. This may spell the end of the gigahertz race on mobile. The simplest explanation of IPC is that a CPU with double the IPC needs half the clock speed to do the same amount of work. Reality is not so...