Samsung and Intrinsity today jointly announced the world’s fastest mobile processor core implementation of the dual-issue ARM Cortex-A8 processor architecture in 45 nanometer (nm) Low potential (LP), low leakage process technology. that Cortex-A8 implementation, code-named Hummingbird, delivers 2000DMIPS at 1GHz. The Hummingbird comes with 32KB each of input and instruction caches, an L2 cache, the size of which can be customized, and an ARM NEON multi-media extension.
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multi-frequency design methodology was plus used to ensure the Hummingbird can run at a high speed even at the minimum supply voltage of 1.0V. The low potential consumption and the high operating clock performance build the Hummingbird an ideal processor core for use in advanced mobile devices. Performance and capability consumption of the Hummingbird have been validated in silicon. Samsung is currently developing standard mobile SoC products using that new core.
