<s>
The	O
ARM	B-Application
Cortex-A12	I-Application
is	O
a	O
32-bit	O
processor	O
core	O
licensed	O
by	O
ARM	O
Holdings	O
implementing	O
the	O
ARMv7-A	B-Architecture
architecture	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
provides	O
up	O
to	O
4	O
cache-coherent	B-General_Concept
cores	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Cortex-A12	O
is	O
a	O
successor	O
to	O
the	O
Cortex-A9	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ARM	O
renamed	O
A12	O
as	O
a	O
variant	O
of	O
Cortex-A17	B-Application
since	O
the	O
second	O
revision	O
of	O
the	O
core	O
in	O
early	O
2014	O
,	O
because	O
they	O
were	O
indistinguishable	O
in	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ARM	O
claims	O
that	O
the	O
Cortex-A12	O
core	O
is	O
40	O
percent	O
more	O
powerful	O
than	O
the	O
Cortex-A9	B-Application
core	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
features	O
not	O
found	O
in	O
the	O
Cortex-A9	B-Application
include	O
hardware	B-General_Concept
virtualization	I-General_Concept
and	O
40-bit	O
Large	O
Physical	O
Address	O
Extensions	O
(	O
LPAE	O
)	O
addressing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
announced	O
as	O
supporting	O
big.LITTLE	O
,	O
however	O
shortly	O
afterwards	O
the	O
ARM	B-Application
Cortex-A17	I-Application
was	O
announced	O
as	O
the	O
upgraded	O
version	O
with	O
that	O
capability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Out-of-order	B-General_Concept
speculative	B-General_Concept
issue	I-General_Concept
superscalar	B-General_Concept
execution	I-General_Concept
pipeline	B-General_Concept
giving	O
3.00DMIPS/MHz/core	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NEON	O
SIMD	B-Device
instruction	O
set	O
extension	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hardware	B-General_Concept
virtualization	I-General_Concept
support	O
.	O
</s>
