ARM kündigt den Quadcore Cortex A-15 Macro-Chip an
Vor ein paar Wochen gingen Benchmark-Ergebnisse durch das Netz, welche den Qualcom S4 Dual-Core-Prozessor (vergleichbar mit der A-15-Technologie), gegen den Nvidia Tegra-3 Quad-Core-Prozessor zeigten. Der kleinere Dual-Core-Prozessor lies dabei den Quad-Core in einigen Punkten sogar zurück. Nun kündigt ARM den A-15 Quad-Core an, welcher in der gleichen 28-Nanometer-Technologie gefertigt wird.
Der A-15 wird in 2 GHz getaktet und es dürfte bisher kaum auszumalen sein, welche Power dann wohl unter einem solchen Quadcore-Monster verborgen sein wird? Bisher gibt es keinerlei Info, in welchem Gerät der A-15 in Zukunft zu finden sein wird?
Ich bleibe noch immer bei der Frage hängen, ob bzw. wofür man tatsächlich einen Quad-Core-Prozessor in einem Smartphone benötigt? Dennoch beeindruckt mich der blose Gedanke an die Power des Chips schon ein wenig. Für die Technik-Interessierten habe ich im Anschluß noch die volle Pressemitteilung eingefügt.
ARM Announces Cortex-A15 Quad-Core Hard Macro
17 April 2012
Power-optimized implementation of quad-core hard macro on leading 28nm process
CAMBRIDGE, UK – April 17, 2012– ARM today announced the availability of a high performance, power-optimized quad-core hard macro implementation of its flagship ARM® Cortex™-A15 MPCore™ processor.
The ARM Cortex-A15 MP4 hard macro is designed to run at 2GHz and delivers performance in excess of 20,000DMIPS, while maintaining the power efficiency of the Cortex-A9 hard macro. The Cortex-A15 hard macro development is the result of the unique synergy arising from the combination of ARM Cortex processor IP, Artisan® physical IP, CoreLink™ systems IP and ARM integration capabilities, and utilizes the TSMC 28HPM process.
The low leakage implementation, featuring integrated NEON™ SIMD technology and floating point (VFP), delivers an extremely competitive balance of performance and power and is ideal for wide array of high-performance computing applications for such as notebooks through to power-efficient, extreme performance-orientated network and enterprise devices.
The hard macro was developed using ARM Artisan 12-track libraries and the recently announced Processor Optimization Pack™ (POP) solution for the Cortex-A15 on TSMC 28nm HPM process. This follows the recent announcement of a broad suite of POPs for all Cortex-A series processors (see ARM Expands Processor Optimization Pack Solutions for TSMC 40nm and 28nm Process Variants, 16th April 2012)
Full configuration and implementation details will be presented at the Cool Chips conference (18-20 April) in Yokohama, Japan. Further information is contained in an accompanying blog.
“For SoC designers looking to make a trade-off between the flexibility offered by the traditional RTL-based SoC development strategy and a rapid time to market, with ensured, benchmarked power, performance and area, an ARM hard macro implementation is an ideal, cost-effective solution,” said Jim Nicholas, vice president of Marketing, processor division, ARM. “This new Cortex-A15 hard macro is an important addition to our portfolio and will enable a wider array of partners to leverage the outstanding capabilities of the Cortex-A15 processor.”
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