• ARM announces 2 GHz quad core Cortex-A15 CPU that id faster than the Xbox 360 CPU and will be built
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[IMG]http://img.hexus.net/v2/lowe/News/ARM/Eagle_New_Look_Chip.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]If you're asking yourself "Hey, aren't quad-core Cortex-A15s already in the pipeline with various ARM clients?" you'd be right. Today [B]ARM has announced what's known as a 'hard macro' design of the Cortex-A15 MP4, to be clocked at 2.0GHz with performance exceeding 20,000DMIPS[/B]. What makes this chip stand out from the rest is that, as a hard macro, the design has already been set-in-stone, enhanced, tested and approved for TSMC's 28nm HPM fabrication process. The idea behind hard macros is to reduce time-to-market and increase yields for firms that don't require heavy customisation of their design and are happy to use TSMC as their chip supplier. The Cortex-A15 MP4 hard macro is designed to deliver strong performance suitable for entry-level notebooks, whilst consuming only a few watts. Generating a very rough comparison against another RISC architecture, at 20,000DMIPS [B]the raw performance of the Cortex-A15 MP4 in fact exceeds the performance of the 3.2GHz PowerPC triple-core Xenon found powering Microsoft's Xbox 360[/B] and so, it's easy to see how, with new found support from Windows 8, the ARM architecture could make an appealing choice in the entry-level notebook market. ARM's announcement was also, in part, to promote some of its chip designing tools that were used to generate the hard macro, such as ARM's Artisan libraries and its new Power Optimization Pack.[/QUOTE] [url]http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/38137-arm-announces-28nm-quad-core-cortex-a15-notebooks/[/url] [QUOTE]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.”[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-announces-cortex-a15-quad-core-hard-macro.php[/url]
[del]Excuse my ignorance but is this still the same power intake/heat output/size class like the ARMs in today high tier cellphones?[/del] Entry level notebooks I need to read better. [editline]19th April 2012[/editline] Getting this stuff in a cellphone will be just plain crazy but I guess we will have to wait for such a thing for a while still.
I hope that we're getting better hardware than the XBox soon: it's going to be seven-years-old next month!
Notebooks are now as powerful as a gaming console. Pfahahaha
Well this explains why nvidia is helping microsoft in porting windows to ARM. I wonder how this holds up against standard cpu's.
[QUOTE=taipan;35640414]Well this explains why nvidia is helping microsoft in porting windows to ARM. I wonder how this holds up against standard cpu's.[/QUOTE] It is RISC, so it is probably better performing in the long run.
Next generation consoles are going to be outdated the moment they're pushed to the market.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/qtoa[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Spool;35640973]Next generation consoles are going to be outdated the moment they're pushed to the market.[/QUOTE]Only the richest/most hardcore gamers can afford to stay up to date.
So now ARM CPUs are outperforming 7 year old RISC designs, soon enough they might be able to compete with the Pentium 4! :v:
Too bad this is only going to be for tablets for a while.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35641848][IMG]http://puu.sh/qtoa[/IMG][/QUOTE] Gotta filter out them snoops else yo compo gon get ~~~high~~~
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;35642109]Gotta filter out them snoops else yo compo gon get ~~~high~~~[/QUOTE] ever wondered why the smoke is blue, that's future weed yo
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35641848][IMG]http://puu.sh/qtoa[/IMG][/QUOTE] [quote=arm]The SCU is responsible for managing the interconnect, arbitration, communication, cache-2-cache and system memory transfers, cache coherence and other capabilities for the processor. The Cortex-A15 MPCore processor also exposes these capabilities to other system accelerators and non-cached DMA driven peripherals to increase performance and reduce system wide power consumption. This system coherence also reduces software complexity involved maintaining software coherence within each OS driver. [/quote] let snoop take care of you memory.
[I]AFAIK[/I] doesn't ARM only develop the chip designs and then sell the production licenses to interested companies?
The next Samsung Processor will be bloody fast.
I'd love Linux on one...
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;35642045]So now ARM CPUs are outperforming 7 year old RISC designs, soon enough they might be able to compete with the Pentium 4! :v:[/QUOTE] Well arm isn't as much about raw performance for the sake of raw performance but in minimum power per performance.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;35647243]Well arm isn't as much about raw performance for the sake of raw performance but in minimum power per performance.[/QUOTE] And that is exactly why ARM dominates the mobile market instead of Intel. If I recall correctly, Intel's Atom processor still doesn't even come near the power per performance rate of ARM chips.
[QUOTE=Bomimo;35645848]I'd love Linux on one...[/QUOTE] Linux runs on arm, what are you talking about.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;35648492]Linux runs on arm, what are you talking about.[/QUOTE] All in a days work, mate.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;35648492]Linux runs on arm, what are you talking about.[/QUOTE] It's hard to find a decent Linux-powered device that's not a crippled Android tablet
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;35642045]So now ARM CPUs are outperforming 7 year old RISC designs, soon enough they might be able to compete with the Pentium 4! :v:[/QUOTE]They're outperforming them with an absolutely miniscule fraction of power used in comparison; the main selling point of ARM CPUs is efficiency.
[QUOTE=Van-man;35644726][I]AFAIK[/I] doesn't ARM only develop the chip designs and then sell the production licenses to interested companies?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]What makes this chip stand out from the rest is that, as a hard macro, the design has already been set-in-stone, enhanced, tested and approved for TSMC's 28nm HPM fabrication process. The idea behind hard macros is to reduce time-to-market and increase yields for firms that don't require heavy customisation of their design and are happy to use TSMC as their chip supplier. The Cortex-A15 MP4 hard macro is designed to deliver strong performance suitable for entry-level notebooks, whilst consuming only a few watts.[/QUOTE] The chip will be sold "ready to assemble" from ARM/TSMC
[QUOTE=Val67;35650340]It's hard to find a decent Linux-powered device that's not a crippled Android tablet[/QUOTE] Download distro, install on desktop/laptop, jobs done.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35641848][IMG]http://puu.sh/qtoa[/IMG][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Pzqt7.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;35654516][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Pzqt7.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] The hardest I have ever laughed since, ever. :v:
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;35650348]They're outperforming them with an absolutely miniscule fraction of power used in comparison; the main selling point of ARM CPUs is efficiency.[/QUOTE] Yeah, they're awesome at that task, my "problem" isn't with ARM, it's more with the unrealistic exceptions people have about them. Right after MS announced Windows 8 would come on ARM, people were talking about replacing their Intel/AMD desktop with an ARM based one and using it to play games, or replacing server infrastructure with ARM based replacements, etc. That said, something like a Gameboy/PSP that could outperform the 360 would be awesome, through in a high density screen and P2P wifi and I'd gladly throw my money at them.
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