OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25176/Nvidia_s_Kal-El_Tegra_To_Pack_Five_Cores Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 17:09:31 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Tsk http://www.osnews.com/thread?490148 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490148 How quint... Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuxie) Comments More cores =) http://www.osnews.com/thread?490155 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490155 I wonder how many "hidden" cores they have =)
Tegra2 contains 3 ARM cores(2xA9 + ARM7).
Dual core OMAP5 has 4 cores (2xA15 and 2xM4) Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (viton) Comments RE: More cores =) http://www.osnews.com/thread?490162 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490162 It is probably a bit hilarious with "smartphone Atom" from Intel. When the first version was announced, I saw a block diagram of it - showing:

a) some fairly standard radio module from a manufacturer specialising in this, most likely with the radio stack running on an ARM core.

b) a part mysteriously labelled ~"32bit RISC" in the "southbridge" of sorts, most likely coordinating the whole thing. ~"32 bit RISC" could mean just a fairly standard ARM core (why Intel would bother with anything else?)

So it's possible that this whole "push x86 everywhere" Intel contraption actually has more ARM cores than x86 ones ;) (which is possibly also the case even with an average PC - drive controllers, DSL "modem", monitor menu, ...)
Not central processing units per se... but still, would be a bit hilarious.Edited 2011-09-21 00:30 UTC Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zima) Comments Screw tablets http://www.osnews.com/thread?490219 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490219 Screw tablets, I want this in my next laptop. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chmeee) Comments RE: Screw tablets http://www.osnews.com/thread?490267 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490267 I doubt that. It seems nvidia isn't doing very well in competing with other arm based manufacturers.

http://liliputing.com/2011/09/asus-eee-pad-transformer-2-with-nvidi...

Their 3d is worse than what's currently available. Not sure about their raw cpu. At least this one has neon (I think). Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bnolsen) Comments RE[2]: Screw tablets http://www.osnews.com/thread?490270 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490270 there is so much wrong with what you said. you need to study this. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Luminair) Comments RE[2]: More cores =) http://www.osnews.com/thread?490272 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490272 That extrapolation is hilarious indeed... given you had no data whatsoever on the details of that atom design.Edited 2011-09-21 22:09 UTC Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tylerdurden) Comments RE[2]: Screw tablets http://www.osnews.com/thread?490333 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490333 No, but AMD could put a Nano-core their next desktop CPU, or Intel could put an Atom-core in their next desktop CPU. The hard part is OS support, but hardware-wise it is pretty simple.

Current desktop CPUs idle at 10-20W, the netbook CPUs uses 1-2W at full speed. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Carewolf) Comments RE[3]: More cores =) http://www.osnews.com/thread?490965 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490965
probably ... most likely ... mysteriously ... ~ ... could mean ... possible ... would be
(some emphasis added)

Hm, my apologies, that was way too few hints - luckily, you were here, able to figure out on your own how it's not exactly a certain info...

(but also not far-fetched, not quite "no data whatsoever"; with stacks of radio modules typically running on some ARM - Intel outright buying out Infineon team providing also their radio chipsets wouldn't change that - strongly hinting to at least equal number of x86 and ARM cores ...also, ~"32bit RISC" label was curiously vague, on an Intel presentation slide) Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zima) Comments