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big.LITTLE is fascinating, and I'm somewhat curious to see if Apple tries to do something along those lines as it supposedly pushes towards ARM chips in their m
by Twirrim 8y ago
big.LITTLE is fascinating, and I'm somewhat curious to see if Apple tries to do something along those lines as it supposedly pushes towards ARM chips in their machines.
Google have added some interesting stuff to Android to help it learn over time if tasks should be allocated to the bigger cores or the lower powered smaller ones, based on all sorts of metrics, and I believe this stuff is making its way upstream. There's certainly some really interesting potential around that.
- wolf550e 8y agoApple chips are big.LITTLE too, at least since the 2016 A10 in the iPhone7. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/ax/a12 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/ax/a12 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/ax/a10 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/ax/a10 https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
- Twirrim 8y agoSure, I should be clear I was thinking about OSX and laptops/desktops, rather than mobile devices.