My understanding is that ARM Cortex-A7 architecture was released after Cortex-A9 and improves features of previous versions. However, I have only found one manufacturer, NXP, that uses Cortex-A7 architecture in their processors. I am referring to manufacturers that mass produce microprocessors only. Suggestions?
What kind of part are you after?
From a very quick search, Allwinner has a Cortex-A7 part and Raspberry Pi 2 was Cortex-A7 so presumably so does Broadcom.
Thanks. I am looking for core processors for industrial control purposes. Allwiner and Raspbery seem to only have one model that offers Cortex-A7 architecture.