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> It's not so much the core CPU/ISA, which ends up being a small portion of the chips. It's the expertise in multi-core buses, caches, and all related paraphern
by timthorn 17y ago
> It's not so much the core CPU/ISA, which ends up being a small portion of the chips. It's the expertise in multi-core buses, caches, and all related paraphernalia. Not exactly where ARM have been playing ...
ARM have been playing in this space for many years now. SoC fabric, such as the AMBA bus design, is a central part of the ARM offering.
- ableal 17y agoThanks for the point. I'm aware of the SoC issues in general - analog bits, etc. I meant high-performance items like 6MB caches, buses like the EV one in Alpha chips (with AMD and Intel descendents), etc. That was my doubt. (self-note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Microcontroller_Bus_Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Microcontroller_Bus_Ar...)