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This might be completely irrational, but it really annoys me when the press use 'big.little' for all heterogeneous CPUs. big.LITTLE is an ARM trademark for ARM'

by KuiN 5y ago

This might be completely irrational, but it really annoys me when the press use 'big.little' for all heterogeneous CPUs. big.LITTLE is an ARM trademark for ARM's implementation of heterogenous designs. Intel have clearly decided heterogeneous is a marketing no-go and have gone with 'hybrid' architecture, which is fair enough. But these are absolutely not big.LITTLE CPUs.

dlp211 5y ago
"big.little" is like "kleenex" or "ziploc". Yes, technically they refer to a specific implementation of a thing, heterogenous CPU core size, tissues, plastic storage bags, but in reality, they were so perfectly branded that they just replaced the item name. It's not a big deal.
- seabrookmx 5y ago
  +1 It's exactly the same thing when people say an AMD Ryzen CPU has "Hyperthreading." This is Intel's trademark for Simultaneous multithreading (or SMT). We all know what someone means when they say this. There's no use being so pedantic.
- OldHand2018 5y ago
  And I'm sure that people are going to call the Google Tensor "big.little" when it is really "big.medium.little" (it has 3 different types of ARM cores)!
  - kasabali 5y ago
    No need to look that far. Mainstream mobile processors in everyone's pocket have already been using 3 types of cores for the last few years (cortex A55, A7* and X1).
    - OldHand2018 5y ago
      Good call - I haven't paid enough attention to the Android ecosystem :)
- guerrilla 5y ago
  or "Google" for web search.
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ziml77 5y ago
Unless we get something better sounding than "heterogeneous CPU topology", I'm going to go with big.LITTLE. I know it's incorrect to apply it outside of ARM processors, but it's also not 13 syllables and it's more likely that someone will know what I'm talking about.
freeAgent 5y ago
Do you get just as annoyed about discussions where x86-64, AMD64, Intel 64, and x64 are used interchangeably?
sydthrowaway 5y ago
They should be using AMP

by KuiN 5y ago

dlp211 5y ago

"big.little" is like "kleenex" or "ziploc". Yes, technically they refer to a specific implementation of a thing, heterogenous CPU core size, tissues, plastic storage bags, but in reality, they were so perfectly branded that they just replaced the item name. It's not a big deal.

seabrookmx 5y ago
+1 It's exactly the same thing when people say an AMD Ryzen CPU has "Hyperthreading." This is Intel's trademark for Simultaneous multithreading (or SMT). We all know what someone means when they say this. There's no use being so pedantic.
OldHand2018 5y ago
And I'm sure that people are going to call the Google Tensor "big.little" when it is really "big.medium.little" (it has 3 different types of ARM cores)!
- kasabali 5y ago
  No need to look that far. Mainstream mobile processors in everyone's pocket have already been using 3 types of cores for the last few years (cortex A55, A7* and X1).
  - OldHand2018 5y ago
    Good call - I haven't paid enough attention to the Android ecosystem :)
guerrilla 5y ago
or "Google" for web search.
- deleted 5y ago
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ziml77 5y ago

Unless we get something better sounding than "heterogeneous CPU topology", I'm going to go with big.LITTLE. I know it's incorrect to apply it outside of ARM processors, but it's also not 13 syllables and it's more likely that someone will know what I'm talking about.

freeAgent 5y ago

Do you get just as annoyed about discussions where x86-64, AMD64, Intel 64, and x64 are used interchangeably?

sydthrowaway 5y ago

They should be using AMP