Today's Android phones and tablets are more powerful than the PCs you used 5 years ago. It's about to get more powerful. ARM has announced the availability of a high performance, power-optimized quad-core hard macro implementation of its flagship ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor.

The ARM Cortex-A15 MP4 hard macro is designed to run at 2GHz on 28nm process. It delivers three significant firsts for the ARM hard macro portfolio, as not only is this the first quad–core hard macro, but also the first hard macro based on the highest performance ARMv7 architecture-based Cortex-A15 processor, and it is also the first hard macro based on 28nm process.

If you think that the Android device you are holding in your hand is powerful, think again.