Posted on 01/31/2014 9:34:20 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Apple has managed to leave everyone behind with the world’s first 64-bit ARM architecture system-on-chip. However, if the rumours about Qualcomm’s forthcoming application processor is correct, then the world’s largest supplier of chips for mobile devices may be preparing something that will blow away not only Apple’s A7, but even Nvidia’s Tegra K1.
Qualcomm is reportedly working on Snapdragon 810 system-on-chip that boasts up to eight 64-bit custom cores with up to 4MB of cache and up to 2.50GHz frequency. The app processor also packs Adreno 430 graphics core with up to 500MHz clock-rate, LPDDR3/LPDDR4 memory controller and various special-purpose hardware designed to accelerate certain operations. It is expected that Snapdragon 810 will exist in two versions: MSM8994 with integrated baseband capabilities and APQ8094 that will be lack them. The chip is rumoured to be made using 20nm fabrication process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
Specifications of the Snapdragon 810 imply that the chip will power extremely high-performance applications. However, MyDrivers and PadNews web-sites report that the chip is intended for mobile devices like smartphones, tablets and game consoles.
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Crap, crap, crap...
tiny, tiny processors that will run tiny, tiny apps.
If you need to run full blown programs for real work you will need Intel...
That would be good.
...won’t compete with desktops, sorry, closer to laptops maybe. This looks like an nVidia K1 with a few more CPU cores but with less graphics horsepower.
Embedded processors always lag a number of years behind desktops.
That said, I agree that these new generations of SoC’s bring useful power to embedded devices.
Example:
AMD Microservers To Power Verizon Terremark's Cloud Services
Now Seamicro can deal with both x87 and ARM chips.
And AMD has an ARM license and is making noise about possibly putting both circuits on a piece of silicon.
Please explain the meaning of the expression "dish washer" in this context. It's a new one for me.
I would LOVE to run a hypervisor on it!
SkyNet approves.....
KYPD
Carries over to the Stock market, and Apple is NOW the Number ONE company ON the planet in terms of its Cash on HAND and valuation.
“FACTS! I WANT FA-....I MEAN INNUENDO....I WANT INNUENDO!”
-Bloom County
In a nutshell, this thing could very well be “the” desktop killer.
And you can buy it ,.,,they call it Kaveri.
Then, over the years, we standardized to 1 U server, like this:
So, the older servers look, in comparison, like "dishwashers". An 8-core 64 bit ARM processor could conceivably let you have a powerful server the size of a paperback novel, like this:
Is it going to come in Ranch and Barbecue too?
But after a while THAT particular gene pool would be cleansed.
I'm not sure I like the future
No one would ever do ANYthing ... and isn't that what "they" want ?
ProLiant 3000:
Or the mack daddy ProLiant 5500:
These things were state of the art back in the day, but they're just gigantic power and cooling hogs now.
The 10 Biggest CPU/GPU Stories Of 2013
fIRST ONE :
Chips Get Faster, Smaller And Learn To Sip (Not Guzzle) Power
Sure looks like the innovators are not going to sit on the side lines and accept any limits on chip designs.
How... how... maybe Google has an idea... they use massive server farms... hey Google, how would you cool acres and acres of these things all networked together and operating flat out? You'd need massive amounts of water... but where do you get water in a drought?
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