A deeper look at Cortex A50: 64-bit ARMv8 CPU cores running at up to 3GHz on phones and tablets in 2014

5. PackMan posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:02 5 0

In desktop space---NO.
In server space---NO.
In mobile/tablet space---Difficult to say.

4. Berzerk000 posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:00 4 2

Apple designs the chips, Samsung builds them. Apple's A6 processor uses a similar instruction set to ARM Cortex, but it is a custom chip sort of like Qualcomm's Snapdragon.

8. pokharkarsaga posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:09 1 0

In short every manufacturer uses ARM architecture while some like Apple & Qualcomm modifies the stock version architecture and Samsung,ST Ericsson,OMAP etc uses the same stock version to build the SOCs.

7. farhanmohdyousaf posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:07 2 0

its abit complicated, this is from what i understand .. the whole chip is called SoC (system on chip).. SoC has many components, the ones usually talked about are the CPU (central or main processor which runs the operating system) and GPU (graphics processor which handles anything related to graphics,pictures,videos,games etc).. there is also RAM bunch of controllers and other smaller things in these SoC.. so for most of these companies like samsung, Nvidia, and TI use the CPU from ARM like cortex A9 in tegra 3 and pair that up with RAM, GPU and make the whole chip.. thats what it means that they design their own chip coz they decide to pair which CPU with which GPU etc. then these chip designs go to foundry's for fabrication and they r the ones who actually make the chip example of that are TSMC, UMC, samsung have their own foundry's etc.

9. farhanmohdyousaf posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:18 1 0

also i should add that apple and qualcomm take up these CPU designs from ARM and customize them abit according to their requirement. and they are almost always sort of in between kind of thing. forexample krait from qualcomm and swift from apple are both in between ARM's cortex A9 and A15

21. yowanvista posted on 31 Oct 2012, 13:35 0 0

Qualcomm SoCs have nothing to do (or in between) with the Cortex-AX family, they are totally different inside out and there is a huge difference when it comes to their internal components. Companies can't also integrate any kind of GPU into any random mobile SoC since each will only accept a specific GPU family. For Snapdragon you've got the Adreno, Exynos with Mali, Omap & Apple AX will opt for PowerVR and Nvidia uses their proprietary ULP Geforce solutions. Others like Vimicro will adopt the Vivante GPUs and so on.

23. farhanmohdyousaf posted on 10 Nov 2012, 21:00 0 0

i was talking about krait and swift being in between cortex A9 and cortex A15. in terms of architecture, design, performance etc

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15. yowanvista posted on 31 Oct 2012, 06:32 1 0

It supposedly has 64-bit registers but is still on the ARMv7 instruction set. Their K3V2 is just a hyped SoC with more registers, that's all.

11. darac posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:23 1 0

Actually, I think it's 3x the current chips and about 30percent more than A15.
But given that 2ghz A15 seems to be at almost about half the power of 2.66ghz Intel i5, you are pretty much right about the pc replacement

14. Berzerk000 posted on 31 Oct 2012, 05:55 0 1

Yeah, I need to read more. My bad

18. -box- posted on 31 Oct 2012, 08:38 2 0

Arguably; they may have the power but there also has to be the software optimization and RAM capabilities at work. Personally I envision a time when a person's entire digital interactions could be accomplished with a phone-size device, much like a smartphone but even more advanced than today's, which interacts wirelessly with peripherals, so a person could take that device to an "internet cafe" and just use the cafe's screen and keyboard and such, keeping all their info on their own phone, then go to the office and do the same.

19. darac posted on 31 Oct 2012, 08:52 2 0

Exactly..thats how i imagined it turning out years ago.
The only real problems with the idea are ones no tech can solve - losing your phone and using it too much :p

22. darac posted on 31 Oct 2012, 13:56 0 0

Where did you get this info from if I may ask ?