[Import] XScale, the "King" in memory "?

Unexpectedly, I really did not expect that Intel decided to sell "children" who have been raising for eight years so quickly. Some of them were born in Dec, and more of them are still under 8 years old. They are born in intel, and these children named "strongarm" or "XScale" are even more promising. They have arm genes in their bodies, but they are different from other similar genes with arm genes. Their core genes have been improved and designed, it may be the only group authorized to transform core genes.

Although these children are not well known as their "IA" elders, they have already lived around you, and they are mostly hidden in your bag or pocket, remind you of the critical moments to spend time on the road or help you move your office ......

In order to meet people's increasing demand for mobile computing, they are constantly challenging the performance limits that can be brought about by unit power consumption. None of them is the crystallization of wisdom, they are shining with the brilliance of iPP, GPP, iwmmx, speedstep, quickcapture, and so on.

Although they once again encounter the fate of easy hands, I believe they will continue to grow from generation to generation. After all, they have already occupied more than half of the high-end Embedded Processor field, the only thing that is criticized is that the baseband is not integrated in the chip, but the ap + CP (Hermon) solution is adopted. From this point of view, when they arrive at Marvell's new home, it will surely take a big step in the direction of the communication processor; on the other hand, it also reflects what the threat AMD has to Intel and how cruel the competition in the market is.

I wish XScale a good trip. No matter what your last name is, from the current situation, it is likely that there will be no new generation of XScale core, because the authorization period for allowing the modification of the ARM core has reached. Even so, I don't want this day to come. After all, XScale core is really a good architecture worth learning. Compared with those named "IA, even "IA"'s rookie "Conroe" has more value for learning and research.

At the same time, I also hope that the Intel XScale architects will not abandon it like the chief architects of the StrongARM-110 in Dec. May the market of high-performance embedded processors soon usher in a real killer application, we hope that Ti OMAP will be able to work steadily, and Freescale Dragonball Mx and Samsung s3cxxxx will be able to learn from each other.

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