Comments on: Texas Instruments licences ARM Eagle series

By: Jedibeeftrix

Jedibeeftrix — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:00:21 +0000

“Texas Instruments licences ARM Eagle series”

One question – what GPU will it come with? One would hope the OpenCL capable SGX 5xx series.

By: Jedibeeftrix

Jedibeeftrix — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:00:21 +0000

“Texas Instruments licences ARM Eagle series”

One question – what GPU will it come with? One would hope the OpenCL capable SGX 5xx series.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:06:45 +0000

In reply to Ray B. As far as I remember some press releases, ARM Cortex A9 is even supposed to go to 2Ghz and quad-core thus maybe as much as 20'000 DMIPS already! It will be interesting to learn how ARM and its partners are going to improve on that.

By: Possible Impact

Possible Impact — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:01:42 +0000

Cortex A9 will be 28nm
Cortex A10 should be 22nm (late 2012 to 2Q 2013)

By: Ray B

Ray B — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:21:23 +0000

Erm this article needs work... Cortex A9 can scale to quad core so we have: --
Cortex A8 = 2,000 DMIPS @ 1.0GHz
Cortex A9 = 6,000 DMIPS @ 1.2GHz (Dual Core)
Cortex A9 = 12,000 DMIPS @ 1.2GHz (Quad Core)

If the Eagle (Cortex A10 most likely) hits only 12k DMIPS with quad cores I'll be sorely disappointed.

I suspect more like a range of clock speeds starting at 1GHz and progressing to 2GHz or maybe even more. Expect more IPC and with quad core to hopefully hit 25k+ DMIPS at a sensible 2GHz clock.

Really hoping that this chip @1.5GHz quad core would draw no more than 750mW and hit in the region of 20k DMIPS. Then we're talking double best current performance in about 2 to 3 years and still good battery usage. If they can also shut off cores and get power usage way down for most usage then I'll be a happy bunny.