Marvell Launches First Triple-Core Hybrid ARM Chip 117
Blacklaw passes along an excerpt from Thing.co.uk that begins "While other manufacturers are content to develop dual-core ARM processors, Marvell has gone one better — literally — with a new triple-core chip called the Armada 628. The system-on-chip design, based on ARM's v7 MP series, features two dedicated 1.5GHz processing cores plus a third 624MHz core in a single application processor — making Marvell the first company to bring such a beast to market. While two of the cores are a pretty standard SMP setup, as seen in other dual-core ARM implementations, the third is a standalone processor designed for ultra-low-power draw. The idea behind such a design is that when the system is idle, or only running a low-performance application on a single thread, it can shut off the dual-core portion and save oodles of power."
Re:Iron Man (Score:3, Funny)
Does it run on DC?
Imagine a (Score:4, Funny)
Beowulf Cluster of...... Never Mind......
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of This old chestnut [theonion.com] from the Onion.
Re:Iron Man (Score:3, Funny)
Re:yep (Score:3, Funny)
Though i guess you're fine as long as the russians don't find out.
Re:Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades (Score:1, Funny)
there is also an old saturday night live sketch from either the second or third episode of the first season that is pretty much the same joke. except the sketch was making fun of manufacturers of two blade razors and one upping them with then-fictitious three blade razors