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  • Eden-K121D - Monday, May 30, 2016 - link

    Interesting Article. I remember that Qualcomm said that they would use ARM off-the-shelf CPUs in their SOCs and custom GPU and other IP blocks from in-house
  • Kalelovil - Monday, May 30, 2016 - link

    Could the Samsung's Exynos M1 be a pre-public example of this sort of semi-custom core license?
    Samsung's has historically enjoyed very early access to ARM technology (releasing products with Mali Midgard and big.LITTLE before those technologies were really ready for prime-time), and the M1 at a high-level seems rather similar to Cortex-A57/72).
  • Eden-K121D - Monday, May 30, 2016 - link

    Yep Exynos M1 cores clocked at 2.6 GhZ slightly above ARM's own 2.5Ghz. They could very well turn out to be semi-custom although i highly doubt it given that Samsung announced that they developed the mongoose cores at their Austin lab after several years of R&D
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Monday, May 30, 2016 - link

    Mongoose is a full Samsung design.
  • Eden-K121D - Monday, May 30, 2016 - link

    Thanks Andrei
  • Ikefu - Monday, May 30, 2016 - link

    I wonder if this could include things like adding GPIO, PWM, or additional ports? Would be cool to see more IoT, Robotics, etc capabilities added to more chips.
  • r3loaded - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link

    No, that's SoC level stuff. This refers to minor tweaks to the CPU's microarchitecture.
  • vayal - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link

    Any idea on what is bundled with an "Architecture license"? Does it involve transfer of any IPs developed by ARM or just the license to implement the ISA?
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - link

    The license for the ISA as well as test suites for compatibility.
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