Quoting Chris Tyler <chris(a)tylers.info>:
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:14 -0500, omalleys(a)msu.edu wrote:
> couple it with the A15 quad's
I think A15 Quads are quite a ways off -- I've heard it said a numbher
of times that when ARM announces something, they're talking about
designs (which their partners then build), unlike AMD or Intel who make
announcements much closer to the time the silicon will ship. An ARM
design announcement is more like an AMD/Intel roadmap announcement in
terms of time-to-availability.
Im not totally disagreeing, but I don't think there is a whole lot of
difference between the A15's and the A9's though, after you add the A9
bugfixes. They have 4 processors instead of two, shrink the die, and
make the chip so you can up the voltage on it (ie 1.5Mhz for low power
cell phones, 2.5Mhz for workstations/servers) and add the ability to
use both ddr3 lowE and regular sdram.(ddr3 ecc?)
They were talking about starting to ship about a year or so behind the
A9's which are pretty much on time.