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To: slacker711 who wrote (105408)	9/20/2011 7:35:20 PM
From: engineer	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 117899

This is actually hilarous hypesmanship......If you checked, the Qualcomm baseband plus snapdragon probably has more like 6+ cores inside if your counting hte ARM based stuff, more like 20+ if your also counting QDSP cores. You think they actually run the snapdragon to do sleep mode in the baseband? No, they most likely use an ARM thumb or Arm9 to do it at far less power and far less silicon space. So Nvidia actually copied Qualcomm and put another core in there (what KIND OF CORE????) to do low power stuff. and why? what exactly are they going to do with this new low power core they could not have done with their other core? If you don't need the speed, just clock it slower. Cmos still scales with clock speed. Ahhh, yes, clock scaling is not as note worthy as FIVE cores. So what next 50 cores just so they can do LOWER power?