By: Exophase (exophase.delete@this.gmail.com), March 5, 2015 11:57 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Alberto (git.delete@this.git.it) on March 5, 2015 11:06 am wrote:
> Do you expected much from ARM?? This is only a minor refresh useful in handset, a larger L2 could give better
> responsiveness, less bus activity and some advantage on few bench suites so loved by tech sites.
> So nearly all the advantage is in the new process and in a better power management, no breaking news.
>
> Qualcomm sports this core right now in the 600 serie, this say a lot about
> the strategic utility of the custom core that we'll see in 820.
>
>
You're making the mistake of thinking that they only changed those two things because that's all that's demonstrated in the TRM. ARM's TRMs today are very light on uarch details. While it does rule out some improvements there are many others that it does not.
> Do you expected much from ARM?? This is only a minor refresh useful in handset, a larger L2 could give better
> responsiveness, less bus activity and some advantage on few bench suites so loved by tech sites.
> So nearly all the advantage is in the new process and in a better power management, no breaking news.
>
> Qualcomm sports this core right now in the 600 serie, this say a lot about
> the strategic utility of the custom core that we'll see in 820.
>
>
You're making the mistake of thinking that they only changed those two things because that's all that's demonstrated in the TRM. ARM's TRMs today are very light on uarch details. While it does rule out some improvements there are many others that it does not.
