He notes that the recent launch of three new processor cores should help stimulate license activity.
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Each CPU has eight cores for a staggering total of 548, 352 total processor cores.
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OMAP5, due by 2013, will have two next-generation ARM Cortex A15 processor cores.
But its scores of processor cores are great at breaking down a big job and working on a different parts of it simultaneously.
Apple announced a new Mac Pro that pairs two of Intel 's new 45-nanometer quad-core 3.2-gigahertz Xeon processors, putting eight processor cores into Apple's powerful workstations.
' (nyse: AMD - news - people ) ATI division, both of which crank out so-called graphics chips built around hundreds of processor cores.
The graphics market is now dominated by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices ' ATI division, both of which crank out so-called graphics chips built around hundreds of processor cores.
Intel boasted of a power-saving technology that will put power not being used by idle processor cores to work, speeding up those cores that are grunting through heavy-duty tasks.
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It incorporates Creative's innovative patented Quartet digital signal processor (DSP) with four independent processor cores, and is the first processor to integrate an array of DSP cores with high-quality HD audio codecs of over 100dB on a single chip, giving it tremendous versatility for PC and embedded configurations.
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If one takes the ideas that heterogeneous computing is primarily about efficiency (read: low power usage), and that ARM, with its legacy in mobile phones, is known for low power usage, then a future that includes AMD parts with actual ARM processor cores running them suddenly seems likely.
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Intel recently launched a processor with 10 cores.
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Aside from the thrilling world of linear algebra and fluid dynamics that the chipset is currently used for, Intel says it could offload processor-intensive functions across several cores, effectively speeding up various functions (say, video streaming).
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If they're accurate, they indicate that the same amount of cash might afford a top-end Trinity A10 processor with overclockable 3.8GHz quad-cores, 4MB cache and vastly superior Radeon HD 7660D graphics.
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That's six times as many GPU cores as Tegra 3 -- the processor found in the Nexus 7, for example -- and the increase is claimed to result in six times the overall visual performance.
PS4 is centered around a powerful custom chip that contains eight x86-64 cores and a state of the art graphics processor.
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The best way to do that is to build that capability into processors built around computing cores licensed from ARM, which specializes in mobile processor design.
Its camera has six imagers, an SoC with dual ARM11 cores and a custom-built multi-imaging video processor (MIVP), along with an Ethernet port and a USB 2.0 port.
Intel turned off most of the cores to increase the speed to 4.3 GHz, although the processor was commonly referred to as a 5 GHz chip.
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There aren't many more details to share beyond what the company mentioned at CES, but that doesn't diminish what could be a best-of-all-worlds processor: the automatic switching between four Cortex-A15 and four Cortex-A7 cores should give it a performance edge over many of its peers while reducing power consumption by up to 70 percent.
The three-core processor apparently runs at just 1.243125 GHz per core, compared to the 3.o GHz cores in the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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