Features ARM Cortex-A8

key features of cortex-a8 core are:

frequency 600 mhz 1 ghz , above
superscalar dual-issue microarchitecture
neon simd instruction set extension
13-stage integer pipeline , 10-stage neon pipeline
vfpv3 floating point unit
thumb-2 instruction set encoding
jazelle rct (also known thumbee instruction set)
advanced branch prediction unit >95% accuracy
integrated level 2 cache (0–4 mib)
2.0 dmips/mhz




^ cortex-a8 specification summary; arm holdings.
^ williamson, david, arm cortex a8: high performance processor low power applications (pdf), archived original (pdf) on 2015-01-01