Samsung has suffered a loss of relative sensitivity, deprived of one of the leading SoC-systems and processors developers. From the company left Jim Mergard, who left Samsung in order to work at Apple. This is not the first acquisition over the past six months.
However, the opposite can happen. Two months ago, for example, AMD has lured one of the leading system Apple architects - Jim Keller . Jim Mergard, by the way, until last year, 16 years developed the processor architecture from AMD, including work on SoC platform Brazos. So Apple company , having a former employee AMD, regained some status .
Strengthening the design team at Apple has a clear base. It is assumed that Apple engineers almost manually create the design of new processor Ax crystals . Thus, the new processors - Apple A6 for the iPhone 5 - is not entirely clear whether the structure generation Cortex-A15, whether fully optimized for ARM-instruction unique architecture.
I must say that on the chip A6 can clearly detect an odd number of graphics cores and presumably two processing cores. Similar concept, NVIDIA processors implemented in Tegra 3 (4 cores and one core-companion). Related Products :
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