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To: LarsA who wrote (105409)9/20/2011 6:14:00 PM
From: badger3   of 117536
 
Must have seen it 10 times.


If you've seen Spinal Tap ten times you're ok in my book Lars... :<)


back on topic.. Steve M actually addresses the "5th core" vs asynchronous quad core issue briefly in the Modoff interview (thanks for the reminder Jim)...no surprise I guess that he thinks Q's solution to be the better one.


Great interview by the way...didn't hear anything too earth shattering (no Mirasol questions)..but full speed ahead on all QCT fronts it appears.

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To: LarsA who wrote (105409)9/20/2011 6:14:00 PM
From: badger3   of 117536
 
delete dupe..SI acting weird today...

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From: badger39/20/2011 6:40:08 PM
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oh..one thing from the Modoff interview I just thought of. There was a question to Steve M (paraphrasing here) where Modoff says that they have done various checks and they can't find anyone who is even close to landing a WP7 design win other than Q (he specifically mentioned Nokia in the question).

I was expecting Steve to him and haw over the answer..but basically he didn't deny it..but did mention that eventually the handset vendors would be looking for secondary sources for their WP7 chips.

So..looks to me like we have WP7 wrapped up thru at least 2012..

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To: slacker711 who wrote (105408)9/20/2011 7:35:20 PM
From: engineer2 Recommendations   of 117536
 
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?

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To: slacker711 who wrote (105408)9/20/2011 8:03:24 PM
From: FUBHO   of 117536
 
RE:The ARM15 is inherently more power efficient than the ARM9 and that is before Qualcomm's customizations.


Krait does not use A15 cores. It is still Qualcomm's custom design.


en.wikipedia.org 

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To: engineer who wrote (105414)9/20/2011 8:43:19 PM
From: slacker711   of 117536
 

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.


It is another A9 and they are using an LP process to allow for lower power consumption than would be possible using one of the quad cores.

nvidia.com 

Slacker

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To: FUBHO who wrote (105415)9/20/2011 8:47:15 PM
From: slacker711   of 117536
 
Krait does not use A15 cores. It is still Qualcomm's custom design.

As with Snapdragon versus the A8/A9, I still expect the overall performance to be in the same range except that Krait should have better power consumption numbers.

Slacker

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To: slacker711 who wrote (105417)9/20/2011 8:52:45 PM
From: FUBHO   of 117536
 
All we have right now are a lot of marketing slides from the companies. It seems prudent to wait for actual chips, power numbers and benchmarks to see what the reality of the situation is.

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From: JeffreyHF9/20/2011 9:01:21 PM
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Amy Berguson, of Qualcomm IR, has responded to Hedgie's issue as follows:


"We will be the supplier of a mirasol display into the e-reader product that will be launched by a partner"

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To: JeffreyHF who wrote (105419)9/21/2011 12:07:49 AM
From: BDAZZ2 Recommendations   of 117536
 
Okay, Arts scenario is sounding better. But could Qcom possibly meet a million plus demand if it arose in early 2012?

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