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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?
There was also a press release saying that Atmel had licence Cortex A7 but so far they have only released A5 parts and no visibility on A7 devices.
See link below:
Atmel License ARM Mali Video and Display Technology
Atmel seem to have reused their A5 core and added an additional 128k L2 cache + NEON + Security
http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sama5.aspx