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The ARM Cortex A73 – Artemis Unveiled
- Symmetry 10y agoThey're also unveiling their new GPU architecture, Bifrost, that uses that same sort of SIMT structure that desktop cards have used for a few years with memory coherence with the application processors. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10375/arm-unveils-bifrost-and-mali-g71 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10375/arm-unveils-bifrost-and-...
- willvarfar 10y agoYes this is the really interesting review imo :) The wavefront divergence problem is really calling out for a Mill-style NotAResult flag for speculation etc so it can get more pipelines per thread again ;)
- CyberDildonics 10y agoI haven't even seen anywhere to buy the A72 even though that was announced around a year and a half ago.
- msh 10y agoHuawei mate 8 got it. Review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9878/the-huawei-mate-8-review http://www.anandtech.com/show/9878/the-huawei-mate-8-review
- lazyjones 10y agoAlso: Huawei P9 (+ plus), Sony Xperia X, Alcatel Idol 4S. Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, Amazon FireTV 2nd gen and some still unavailable smartphones.
- Symmetry 10y agoIt takes a while to go from announcement to devices with the core on store shelves.
- mtgx 10y agoEspecially with ARM being an IP vendor. There's usually a 2 year period between new core announcement and shipping, although this time it may be a little shorter.
- Tuna-Fish 10y agoUnlike, say, AMD, Intel or Apple, ARM does not make or market CPUs to consumers. They design and market CPU IP to SOC makers. The road from inception to actual product for a typical SOC is longer than a year, and from that it takes time for device manufacturers to actually put the SOCs into devices and sell them to you. This naturally means that it takes quite a lot of time for ARM cores to go from the time you first hear about them (when they are being marketed to SOC makers) to being as close to release as the point when you typically hear about other CPU cores (when they are being marketed to you).
- mkozlows 10y agoThe biggest reason for that is that Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung have designed their own custom cores, rather than using ARM's license-able ones. So most of the phones you see, instead of using Cortex A72, use Snapdragon 820 or Exynos M1. (Huawei's Kirin 950 uses A72 cores, though.) One of the more interesting bits about the A73 announcement is that they're offering a new licensing level for SoC makers to customize their cores starting from an A73 base, and that Qualcomm has taken that license; so the next-gen Qualcomm SoC won't have the A73 name, but may have a lot of its tech.
- digi_owl 10y agoDidn't know Samsung had picked up an ARM ISA license.
- jcbeard 10y agoYou can always buy an Amazon Fire TV and root it (A72/A53 combo - https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-tv/docs/device-and-platform-specifications https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-t...)....Qualcomm has an 810 dev board you can hack on( https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/dragonboard-810 https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/dragonboard-810). ARM also offers a dev board system (http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/juno-arm-development-platform.php http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versati...). I suspect there are dozens more, you just have to look a bit (and decipher marketing literature to figure out which ones are 72's).
- mrmondo 10y agoI'd really love to see some very high clock speed arm processors even at the sacrifice of less cores. A lot of the work were doing with interpreted languages these days bottlenecks on a single threads maximum performance on one core often due to the complexities around avoiding the GIL inefficiencies in Python, a RISC processor with a high clock speed could be a really interesting match for such processing.
- digi_owl 10y agoCould have sworn there was a couple of companies looking into that for server usage a few years back.
- jdeisenberg 10y agoIs there a mirror of this anywhere? All I am getting is "Server Error in '/' Application."