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ARM, LSI on-chip link connects up to 32 cores
Rick Merritt
10/10/2012 1:00 PM EDT
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Nearly half of comms processors being shipped use Power cores. ARM trails Power, x86 and MIPS with a small sliver of the comms market, but that’s set to change.
“The Power architecture is going to be losing a lot of share to ARM in the next several years,” predicted Linley Gwennap, principal of market watchers The Linley Group (Mountain View, Calif.). “These companies all say they can support two architectures, but that gets expensive, so it will be interesting to see how long they can afford it,” he said.
“Over the next two or three years, you will see a good chunk of both [Power- and ARM-based comms chips] being shipped, but in the long term ARM will be the majority,” said Bustami.
LSI has aligned its rollout of the ARM-based chips with a software transition going on at two or three of the largest cellular basestation makers. “They develop a monster amount of code that runs on those basestations,” Gregg Huff, LSI's chief technologist, said in a recent interview. “We know exactly the basestation products for which they want an ARM processor, and we are 100 percent lined up with them,” he said.
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Nearly half of comms processors being shipped use Power cores. ARM trails Power, x86 and MIPS with a small sliver of the comms market, but that’s set to change.
“The Power architecture is going to be losing a lot of share to ARM in the next several years,” predicted Linley Gwennap, principal of market watchers The Linley Group (Mountain View, Calif.). “These companies all say they can support two architectures, but that gets expensive, so it will be interesting to see how long they can afford it,” he said.
“Over the next two or three years, you will see a good chunk of both [Power- and ARM-based comms chips] being shipped, but in the long term ARM will be the majority,” said Bustami.
LSI has aligned its rollout of the ARM-based chips with a software transition going on at two or three of the largest cellular basestation makers. “They develop a monster amount of code that runs on those basestations,” Gregg Huff, LSI's chief technologist, said in a recent interview. “We know exactly the basestation products for which they want an ARM processor, and we are 100 percent lined up with them,” he said.
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