Comments on: TI Sees Multicore Phones Coming in 2011

By: The multicore mobile « SoftTalk – multicore and parallel programming

The multicore mobile « SoftTalk – multicore and parallel programming — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:05:59 +0000

[...] « Amdahl’s law in the multicore era The multicore mobile 30/06/2009 Gigaom reported last week on Texas Instruments waxing lyrical about multicore mobiles. According to the [...]

By: This Week in BlackBerry #61 « This Week in BlackBerry

This Week in BlackBerry #61 « This Week in BlackBerry — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:59:56 +0000

[...] Texas Instruments is betting that a more powerful cell phone, one that uses identical computing cores working in parallel inside the application processor, a setup it calls symmetric multicore processing, will be here as soon as 2011. Such phones, which will be built with multicore ARM-based chips, will allow for faster processing on mobile phones without sacrificing battery life.GigaOm [...]

By: Brian Carlson

Brian Carlson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:30:59 +0000

Thanks Ronak. With over 40 products in the pipeline, and with my focus on future processors, it is hard to keep track of all the phone release dates. Also, I only knew both of these phones by their previous codenames which makes it more difficult! Look forward to more exciting products coming this year.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:12:39 +0000

What’s interesting is that Motorola is already using Open Kernel Labs OKL4 mobile phone virtualization solution for their new Evoke QA4. It was announced some time ago that Qualcomm would be standardizing their next-generation chipsets on OKL4 as well. With OKL4 on more than 300MM devices, including the G1, and dozens more designs, it’s fair to say the mobile/wireless market has adopted OKL4 as the emerging, open source, standard.

By: Ronak Joshi

Ronak Joshi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:28:00 +0000

Brian, don’t forget you actually had OMAP3430 inside a handset Samsung’s i8910 one month earlier in May ;-) Looking forward to the Satio and other OMAP3 handsets later in the year – Nokia????

By: Brian Carlson

Brian Carlson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:34:28 +0000

To respond to Nicholas: Yes, you there will be a multicore ARM Cortex-A9 this year with sampling of the TI OMAP4430 device to high-volume OEMs, but it typically takes phone vendors 18 months or so from samples to phones in the stores. In general, end-products are released about every 2.5 years with the next-generation ARM cores: ARM11 in late 2005, Cortex-A8 in Sept 2008 (Archos 5 and 7) and Cortex-A9 expected early 2011. Note however, that it is possible that non-phone devices could get to market somewhat earlier as we saw with Cortex-A8 in Archos 5 MID in Sept 2008 versus Palm Pre phone in June 2009.

By: Alan Cheslow: TI Sees Multicore Phones Coming in 2011 | Consumer Electronics, Social Media, and the Digital Home

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:41:29 +0000

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By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:29:55 +0000

There are a few multicore ARM MP cores available and several chip vendors hoping to use them in processors for phones, but I think TI is saying 2011 based on when these phones will be available to the public. The cores are out today, but it takes time to design a build a chip around them, then build a device and test it on a network. That said, we can always hope for sooner.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:17:47 +0000

With the ARM Cortex, my understanding was that we would be seeing multi-core versions this year. I suppose that is wrong. Just as interesting is perhaps the ARM graphics co-processors set to hit in December. The question will become what defines mobility? Certainly size, but the processors are becoming incredibly interesting and powerful.