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2010-08-05
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2010-08-05
, 17:21
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@ London, UK
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2010-08-05
, 17:58
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@ London, UK
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No, don't fall for Qualcomm's abuse of the megahertz myth. They're pulling a Pentium 4 with their A8 stuff.
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2010-08-05
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@ Phoenix, WA
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Just to say that the Qualcomm Snapdragon isn't a Cortex-A8 core - Qualcomm licensed the instruction set from ARM and then designed their own CPU architecture that (mostly) implemented the ARMv7 instruction set. Since Snapdragon is not a Cortex-A8 and a completely custom design Qualcomm were able to implement changes that allowed for higher speed/faster clocks and/or improved performance (ie. better SIMD operations).
TI and Samsung licensed the Cortex A-8 architecture from ARM and proceeded to build their SoCs around it, tweaking the ARM design where necessary to suit their requirements, but it's fundamentally a Cortex-A8 at heart.
I do agree though that the ridiculous "megahertz claims" are leading us back into the dark ages of Intel vs. AMD.
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2010-08-05
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Funny that it's called the "Glacier", I bet it won't feel so cold with dual core processors running @ >= 1GHz. However still sounds cool, so maybe it's warranted.
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2010-08-06
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2010-08-06
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2010-08-06
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2010-08-06
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#40
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One big thing for the performance and battery life is that example snapdragon 1ghz and OMAP3430 are 65nm based while hummingbird, A4 and OMAP36xx are 45Nm.