[liliputing][rumour] MediaTek to launch 10- and 12-core SoCs

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sm625

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Sure, why not. 2 threads for me, 8 or 10 for the NSA. With 10 cores, you can have 8 different malware threads running in the background chewing up an entire core, and the user wouldnt even know it. These high core count "smartphones" have to be the holy grail of malware.
 
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companies using vanilla ARM cores have no other way of differentiation in CPU other than adding cores
 
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jhu

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I'd make an 11 core chip. Then phones that use this chip can say their phone goes to 11.
 
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Yuriman said:
BIG.Medium.little ?
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Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Well, not the medium part. :)

6+6, big.LITTLE?

What would it be used for? NASes? Mini-servers?

In my case, I (philisophically) prefer my triple-core A8X. Seems much more appropriate for a tablet given the usage patterns.
 
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Eug said:
Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Well, not the medium part. :)

6+6, big.LITTLE?

What would it be used for? NASes? Mini-servers?

In my case, I (philisophically) prefer my triple-core A8X. Seems much more appropriate for a tablet given the usage patterns.
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background tasks sharing cores...pfft that is so 2014. mediatek will usher in an era where background tasks can have their own cores. THE FUTURE!
 
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Exact wrong direction for mobile SOC's. Marketing driven most likely, and ultimately useless.
 
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Triple cluster of A5 cores, with a custom L1->L2 interface and communication bus? That's my guess, and aside from using very weak cores, it's probably wrong :). MediaTek is one of the main makers of the quad A5 SoCs, already. They're nice for what they are and all, but for what they are, being quad is already :rolleyes:.
 
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This just means it's time for the massively multithreaded killer phone application.
 
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sm625 said:
Sure, why not. 2 threads for me, 8 or 10 for the NSA. With 10 cores, you can have 8 different malware threads running in the background chewing up an entire core, and the user wouldnt even know it. These high core count "smartphones" have to be the holy grail of malware.
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also lol.
 
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Probably an unfounded rumor: ARM current interconnect for the user market (CCI-400) only supports two clusters of up to 4 CPUs.
 
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monstercameron said:
yeah but they have the 504 bus for 4 clusters of 4 cores...also the 508/512 bus but i dont know if they are deployed yet http://semiaccurate.com/2013/11/04/arm-talks-tech-32-core-ccn-508-bus/
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These are targetting network and server chips.

See this: http://www.arm.com/products/system-ip/interconnect/corelink-ccn-504-cache-coherent-network.php
CoreLink CCN-504 is part of a family of products offering designers a scalable, cache coherent interconnect for 'many core' networking infrastructure and sever solutions.
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Also note the typo :p
 
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monstercameron said:
background tasks sharing cores...pfft that is so 2014. mediatek will usher in an era where background tasks can have their own cores. THE FUTURE!
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Will be a awesome win as a CPU tech. Are you reading this, AMD and Intel?

One more tech coming to the prophecy of the future trends in the processors.

On this prophecy We already have HBM, MoarCorz on the high-end/server/HPC, smaller processors and more conservative power targets, Overpowered IGPs, HSA...
 
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