Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on October 11, 2018 7:48 am wrote:
> none (none.delete@this.none.com) on October 11, 2018 4:38 am wrote:
> > juanrga (noemail.delete@this.juanrga.com) on October 11, 2018 3:04 am wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Instead having two separate teams with two separate cores. Qualcomm is now designing
> > > a single core for both mobile and server products to gain cost efficiencies.
> >
> > Two separate cores? For mobile, Qualcomm has been using ARM Ltd CPU for some years. So
> > they technically had only one team doing custom CPU development, some other team likely was
> > "only" doing some tweaks on an existing CPU provided by ARM Ltd.
> >
>
> "Some year" in this case = ~2 years, since original Kryo (2015) was still using core of their own.
> Do you say that the team that did this core and Krait cores before that no longer exists?

I wouldn't be surprised if part (most?) of the old Krait team left for some more
interesting jobs than tuning an ARM Ltd core to name it Kryo, and anyway you don't need to
maintain a full CPU team for that task. Note I might be wrong, I have no insider
knowledge, but given how quickly QCOM server team disbanded... :-)