Marvell’s Upcoming Tri-Core ARM Processors: In The Land Of The Duals, The Tri-Core SoC Is King?
Some new rumours swirling around pertaining to Marvell’s new ARM-based SoC’s coming to the market, courtesy of SemiAccurate:
“SemiAccurate’s moles say that Marvell is cooking up an A9/A15 hybrid part, philosophically closer to the A9 on the core, but with a very A15-like memory controller. This likely means a 3-pipe design rather than a 4-pipe, but with >32-bit memory access and virtualization instructions. The new chip should implement the full A15 ISA, so there should be no software compatibility issues, but has less raw grunt than a full A15. At least on paper.“
It is speculated that this hybridisation may be to lower the cost at near A15 levels of performance. An interesting question is whether this will impact the tablet market, or will these chips be aimed at laptops and servers?
via armdevices
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