Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
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> Titan wasn't an existing core with Fast14 added to it. It was a completely
> new core designed by Intrinsity under contract from AMCC.
But why is it then that Titan is often connected to the PPC4xx family of cores?
Maybe it's designed to be compatible.
OTOH it could just be marketing. AMCC have the 460 label on different chips with 440 cores and others with 460 cores...
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As they got their investment refunded I would conclude that they don't own the design anymore. Any objections?
I don't know the details so I wouldn't conclude anything.
I would imagine they own the core but not the 90nm version. Certainly $5.6 million isn't nearly enough to design a core.
The deal would have been much bigger and probably very complex so $5.6 million might have been a part payment for something they didn't get.
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Samsung's Hummingbird core used for instance in Apple's A4 chip is an Intrinsity (i.e. Fast14) enhanced Cortex-A8 core. And while there're already 2 GHz Cortex-A9 based chips in existence (e.g. by Nufront) I guess that a Fast14 enhanced 2 GHz Cortex-A9 would draw even less power.
Indeed.
