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Slight correction: Krait was the name for the excellent ARMv7 core design. The underwhelming ARMv8 replacement was named Kryo. Confusingly, they (at least for a
by NoahKAndrews 4y ago
Slight correction: Krait was the name for the excellent ARMv7 core design. The underwhelming ARMv8 replacement was named Kryo. Confusingly, they (at least for a while) kept the Kryo branding even after they switched to lightly-customized versions of cores designed by ARM.
- cwizou 4y agoYou're right, I misremembered here. The renaming part btw was quite awful of them, they had a hard time acknowledging that they went back to Cortex based cores and I remember their press release trying to imply they didn't. They were quite hammering the fact they had a custom arch pre v8, and the turnaround was difficult for them to admit.
- LinAGKar 4y agoNot just for a while, they're still calling them Kryo, even after moving to ARMv9