(技術新聞, 2005年11月11日) Online staff — Wireless Design & Development Asia
Qualcomm Inc. recently announced the new "Scorpion" mobile microprocessor core, which is specifically designed and optimized for integration into the company's Mobile Station Modem (MSM) solutions. The new microprocessor is expected to enable the convergence of mobile handsets with consumer electronics features by delivering superior performance and reduced power demands in mobile environments.
"Qualcomm's partnership with ARM as the first architecture licensee of the ARMv7 instruction set brings a new dimension to the ARM technology-compliant processor portfolio for mobile applications," said Warren East, CEO of ARM. "We look forward to seeing our joint efforts continue to enable new wireless devices with advanced data processing capabilities."
The expansion of the relationship between the two companies to include an architectural license has enabled the creation of the ARMv7 architecture-compliant Scorpion microprocessor, with an industry-proven instruction set that is fully customized and specifically designed for Qualcomm's MSM solutions. The Scorpion solution includes wireless-specific features that make the microprocessor extremely well-suited to mobile environments, while dynamic voltage scaling and dynamic clock scaling deliver twice the efficiency of ARM11 family-based solutions. The Scorpion microprocessor uses 65-nm low-power, low-leakage technology and a number of leading-edge design approaches to deliver optimized power consumption and enable longer battery life of wireless devices.
Qualcomm plans to announce the MSM platforms and products that will use Scorpion in 2006. "The integration of the Scorpion microprocessor brings an unsurpassed 1 GHz of performance and efficiency to Qualcomm's MSM solutions and makes it ideally suited for the next generation of the company's chipsets," said Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. "Qualcomm's long-standing leadership in the wireless market and our expansion into the microprocessor industry with the development of Scorpion enable a highly optimized solution designed for the world's most advanced mobile devices."
The Scorpion microprocessor provides a superior power-to-performance ratio, enabling next-generation mobile handsets to deliver processing power comparable to many of today's PCs. Possessing up to 1 GHz of processing speed, the Scorpion core provides up to eight times the performance of existing MSM solutions. The microprocessor features a sophisticated micro-architecture and advanced power management and circuit design techniques. The companion multimedia coprocessor to Scorpion implements ARM NEON technology to provide an additional 8 billion operations per second for added multimedia capabilities, a key requirement for next-generation advanced mobile devices.
