ARM Cortex-A8

The ARM Cortex-A8 is a 32-bit processor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture.

Compared to the ARM11, the Cortex-A8 is a dual-issue superscalar design, achieving roughly twice the instructions per cycle. The Cortex-A8 was the first Cortex design to be adopted on a large scale in consumer devices.

Features
Key features of the Cortex-A8 core are:
 * Frequency from 600 MHz to 1 GHz and above
 * Superscalar dual-issue microarchitecture
 * NEON SIMD instruction set extension
 * 13-stage integer pipeline and 10-stage NEON pipeline
 * VFPv3 floating-point unit
 * Thumb-2 instruction set encoding
 * Jazelle RCT (also known as ThumbEE instruction set)
 * Advanced branch prediction unit with >95% accuracy
 * Integrated level 2 Cache (0–4 MiB)
 * 2.0 DMIPS/MHz

Chips
Several system-on-chips (SoC) have implemented the Cortex-A8 core, including:
 * Allwinner A1X
 * Apple A4
 * Freescale Semiconductor i.MX51
 * Rockchip RK2918, RK2906
 * Samsung Exynos 3110
 * TI OMAP3
 * TI Sitara ARM Processors
 * Conexant CX92755