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"big.little" is like "kleenex" or "ziploc". Yes, technically they refer to a specific implementation of a thing, heterogenous CPU core size, tissues, plastic st
by 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 agoAnd 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 agoNo 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 agoGood call - I haven't paid enough attention to the Android ecosystem :)
- guerrilla 5y agoor "Google" for web search.
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