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ARM has announced two new CPU cores, the Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55. According to ARM, the A75 increases performance by around 22% over the A73 at the same level of power consumption. It can also scale to use more power per core (1-2 W rather than 0.75 W) which could slightly improve the performance of ARM laptops and tablets.
The smaller core, the Cortex-A55, increases performance by around 18% compared to the Cortex-A53, but also increases power consumption by 3%. Thus, power efficiency is about 14-15% better than the A53.
ARM's successor to big.LITTLE, DynamIQ, allows for up to 8 cores of any size (which for now means either the A75 or A55) inside of a single cluster. This means that a configuration including 1x Cortex-A75 and 7x Cortex-A55 cores would be possible, or even optimal according to ARM.
ARM also announced its Mali-G72 GPU, an incremental upgrade to the Mali-G71:
ARM says that the Mali-G72 will see a 25 percent boost to energy efficiency compared with the G71, meaning that SoC designers will have more power to play with to boost performance or increase battery life.
Similarly, the G72 offers 20 percent better performance density, meaning that manufacturers can pack more GPU cores into the same die area as before, giving further potential for a performance boost without an increase in cost. Previously ARM was targeting 16 to 20 Mali-G71 cores as the optimum for mobile, and expects to see the number push closer to the 32 shader core maximum supported by the G72 this time around.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:17AM (8 children)
Are these designs tied to a particular fab tech? How can they link to specific power usage numbers otherwise?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:40AM (5 children)
You've heard of engineering?
You know, since hundred years back, the guys have been able to predict the durability of a bridge without building it, especially when they are able to use CAD/simulation software.
Granted, sometimes they predicted wrong, especially on high winds [wikipedia.org]; but most of the time they managed to come quite close.
Quite crazy these guys, I have to tell yeah... the good ones can't be swayed by markedroids and MBA-s (and may need to be fired). Here's even an example of predicted failure [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:53AM (2 children)
Anyone else who's a not drunk idiot?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:58AM
I is sober as a fox and I only have one question, are these ARM all pimped out with them NEON lights?
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:22PM
He's not drunk! (He's just speaking in cursive)
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:55AM (1 child)
Tacoma Narrows myth is busted. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:06PM
Tacoma bridge is busted. Clearly it was a engineering/design defect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:55AM
The power usage numbers are definitely subject to change. They are from ARM after all.
Some cores are made identical to ARM's designs, others are customized:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv8-A_cores [wikipedia.org]
For example, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 uses customized Cortex-A73 cores. Fab = Samsung’s 10nm "10LPE" FinFET process. The latest Exynos SoCs from Samsung use a combination of custom cores and what looks like normal Cortex-A53 cores.
Here's a fun one: Apple’s A9 SoC Is Dual Sourced From Samsung & TSMC [anandtech.com]. Meaning you could order your iPhone 6s and get a chip with slightly different performance and efficiency. Luck of the draw.
There's also GlobalFoundries, and Intel may even make ARM chips for third parties [arstechnica.com] in the future.
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:36AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:47AM (1 child)
Moore. Gordon Moore.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:38PM
"I expect you to shrink, mister Moore"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @11:46AM (4 children)
I mean, at the driver level. ARM is not the way forward for FOSS computing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:41PM
screw arm and mali. we need risk or similar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:15PM (2 children)
Enjoy the reading http://libv.livejournal.com/27461.html [livejournal.com] ARM is against FOSS even if it would mean simpler support and more sales. And when reverse engineering was tried, many sticks were pushed into wheels by others in the comunity. We could be using LIMA and TAMIL for some years.
Radeon FOSS driver start is also full of sticks. http://libv.livejournal.com/27799.html [livejournal.com]
Companies love to spoil what they get.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:08PM (1 child)
> ARM is against FOSS even if it would mean simpler support and more sales.
You base this on one single blog post that actually has a lot of bias.
Though at least that blog post reference the video of an interview that explains things a bit differently.
Anyway as stated it's wrong, ARM certainly contributes back to several FOSS projects, even more so if you include contributions by Linaro.
Admittedly you can probably consider them all driven by pure self-interest, but still it proves your statement as-is certainly as untrue.
Also the kernel part of the driver to my knowledge is OpenSource (GPLv2), which would make ARM GPUs more OpenSource from the vendor side than NVidia desktop GPUs for example...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:54PM
What driver to use Mali GPUs? One that links a binary blob you get by means of the commercial SDK? Pretty much the same trick NVidia uses with the kernel and keeps the rest closed. The most they seem to provide is open 2D. Like if this was the 90s.
If they were barely friendly, they would not declare they don't want a FOSS full driver for the Mali and newer. Friendly would mean sending docs or hints when issues appear. They must be making money hand over fist with the SDK to be so negative about other efforts.