ARM comes with Juno development board for development of 64-bit Android apps

Chip developer ARM, together with the non-profit organization Linaro, announced the Juno platform for developers. Juno is a development board based on an ARMv8 soc. It will run a 64-bit version of Android.

With the announcement of Android L during Google I/O, it has become clear that the next version of Google’s mobile OS should run with 64-bit applications. ARM and Linaro, a partnership between companies that make ARM-compatible hardware and software, subsequently announced the Juno platform.

Juno consists of a development board with a soc in which a quad-core Cortex A53 CPU is processed. These ARMv8 cores support 64bit. Built on ARM’s big.little architecture, the soc also includes two Cortex A57 cores and a quad-core Mali T-624 GPU. CoreLink and Artisan technology is also included in the soc. The cores are interconnected via the CCN-400 data bus.

In addition, ARM ships with the Juno development board a 64bit AOSP version of Android with Linux kernel 3.10, so that developers can get started developing 64bit Android applications. Juno will offer support for OpenGL-ES 3.0, up to 8GB of RAM and USB 2.0.