ARM recently announced the Cortex A15 MPCore processor that promises to deliver a 5x performance improvement over today's advanced smartphone processors, within a comparable energy footprint. The Cortex-A15 processor has the projected headroom to run at up to 2.5GHz and is targeted at manufacture in 32nm, 28nm, with a roadmap extending to 20nm. The Cortex-A15 extends the capabilities of the ARM Cortex-A Series by adding hardware support for OS virtualization, and soft-error recovery.