The Cortex family of processors provides ARM Partners with a range of solutions optimized around specific market applications across the full performance spectrum. This underlines ARM's strategy of aligning technology around specific market applications and performance requirements. |  | The ARM Cortex family comprises three series, which all implement the Thumb-2 instruction set to address the increasing performance and cost demands of various markets:- ARM Cortex-A Series, applications processors for complex OS and user applications.
Supports the ARM, Thumb and Thumb-2 instruction sets
- ARM Cortex-R Series, embedded processors for real-time systems.
Supports the ARM, Thumb, and Thumb-2 instruction sets
- ARM Cortex-M Series, deeply embedded processors optimized for cost sensitive applications.
Supports the Thumb-2 instruction set only
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