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Arm Targets Laptop Performance
Arm announced a new mobile CPU core that it said can deliver performance within 10% of Intel’s latest Skylake chips. Analysts praised the architecture’s leap forward but said that they doubt Arm will take a significant share of today’s x86-based notebooks.The Cortex-A76 arrives in tandem with new Mali G76 GPU and V76 video cores. All three are expected to appear in premium smartphone SoCs before the end of the year.The A76 marks a full redesign for mobile systems, packing up to 2-Mbytes L2 cache, 4-Mbytes L3, and running at more than 3 GHz in a 7-nm node. It aims to deliver 90% of the Specint2006 performance of an Intel mobile Skylake chip with one-fourth the area and half the power — or roughly the same performance in thermally constrained systems.“We’re looking to close the gap with Intel … this marks the first step in a new family, and it’s the biggest leap we’ve taken in our roadmap,” said Mike Filippo, an Arm fellow and lead architect for the A76.Compared to an A72 core at 10 nm, a 7-nm A76 should deliver 35% more performance or use 40% less power. That’s a step up from 15% to 25% increases that Arm typically delivers with annual core upgrades. In its day, the A72 delivered about 75% of the performance of Intel’s mobile Broadwell processors.The comparisons are based on CPUs running at similar frequencies. Arm acknowledged that Intel’s chips typically support higher frequencies than Arm’s cores. Although TSMC announced a 4-GHz A72 test chip, few SoC makers are expected to push their designs to such extreme speeds.Arm is preparing a separate core for wired servers and networking gear. The A76 aims to expand Arm’s dominance in smartphones into laptops with 4+4 A76/A55 configurations sporting large caches.“We think you’ll see meaningful volumes in laptops,” said Filippo, but some analysts disagree.Arm-based notebooks lack differentiation, said Bob O’Donnell of Technalysis Research. They offer slightly less performance and about the same price as x86 systems. Although the Arm portables sport longer battery life and often build in cellular modems, O’Donnell doubts that those factors will sway many buyers.That said, Asus, Hewlett Packard, and Lenovo announced Arm-based notebooks running Windows 10 on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC. To date, Qualcomm has been the leading proponent of such designs.With its Cortex-A76, Arm removed performance bottlenecks and optimized features across its mobile core architecture. Click to enlarge. Images: Arm.With its focus on small, low-power cores, Arm will get more benefit from next-generation process technologies than rival Intel, traditionally focused on driving up data rates. Arm claims that the latest 7-nm nodes will only deliver 2% to 3% more speed than the 16-nm node.“There hasn’t been much frequency benefit at all since 16 nm … wire speed hasn’t scaled for some time,” said Peter Greenhalgh, an Arm fellow and vice president of technology.In graphics, the new Mali G76 is the latest high-end implementation of Arm’s Bifrost GPU architecture. It delivers at 7 nm an estimated 50% overall improvement compared to the existing G72 made in a 10-nm process.The G76 can be configured with up to 20 shader cores and an L2 cache configurable from 512 Kbytes to 4 Mbytes. Each shader sports three execution engines.Arm enhanced both the A76 CPU and G76 GPU for machine-learning tasks even though it is about to roll out its first AI-specific cores. The shotgun approach stems in part from Arm’s belief that it’s still early days for what’s likely to be a wide diversity of AI applications needing a variety of implementations.Deep-learning tasks will run four times faster on the A76 and 2.7 times faster on the G76 compared to existing Arm cores. “We are enabling machine learning on everything … as the size of workloads grows, people will move some jobs to GPUs and CPUs for inline work,” said Alex Chalfin, a senior principal graphics architect for Arm.In video, the Mali-V76 improves 4K performance and, running at 800 MHz, can decode a single 8K video stream at 60 frames/second. A next-generation design will support 8K60 encode.The 8K support is initially geared for VR headsets displaying 4K video to each eye. 8K content is not expected to be generally available until 2020, when Japan streams the Summer Olympics in the format.Overall, Arm expects that the A76 will deliver a 35% performance boost over the existing A72 core. Click to enlarge.Overall, “each new core offers significant upgrades for premium smartphones … and Arm’s Dynamiq architecture makes it easier to drop one or two Cortex-A76s into a cluster with the little A55 cores to boost performance in mid-range phones as well,” said Mike Demler, analyst for the Linley Group.“As for the VPU, Arm doesn’t have a display processor core yet to deliver 8K output, but I think there won’t be much of a market for that for a few more years,” he added.Test chips have been taped out for all of the new cores using RTL that Arm shipped about a year ago. Production silicon from SoC customers is eventually expected to span 12-, 7-, and 5-nm nodes.
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RS stocking new pi-top modular <span style='color:red'>laptop</span>
  RS Components (RS) has announced that it is now stocking the latest-generation pi-top modular laptops,  launched today by the pi-top organisation, featuring new enhancements intended to assist learning and boost usability.  The pi-top comes with a 1080p full-HD 14-inch display, up to 8-hours battery life, a full-sized sliding keyboard, and the Raspberry Pi 3 with state-of-the-art compute capability and extra power for maker projects.  The laptop is supplied with the display installed in the chassis, ready to assemble by connecting the Raspberry Pi 3 and accompanying hardware using the cables supplied. Users can then take advantage of the pi-top ecosystem, comprising software, accessories and teaching/learning aids, to understand computer science and coding principles, and build their own maker projects.  The sliding keyboard provides access to the Raspberry Pi 3 and a magnetic board-mounting rail, which allows users to expand the hardware. The advanced inventor’s kit, supplied with the new pi-top, provides expansion opportunities including LED lights, modular microphones and speaker accessories, and pi-topPROTO+ – a HAT-compatible board containing a breadboard for solder-less prototyping of electronic circuits.  “The pi-top modular laptop is delivered as a straightforward self-build project that gives a good grasp of computer-science basics, and a launchpad for rich learning experiences in software and hardware,” said Simon Duggleby, Senior Product Marketing Manager at RS. “The latest version is more powerful, with greater usability.”  To help users better use the laptop’s extra features and capabilities, the pi-topOS Polaris software suite contains purpose-built teaching apps, including the pi-topCLASSROOM customisable lesson-plan creator, pi-topCODER, and pi-topPROTO physical-computing examples. Users can also take advantage of tools like Scratch and CEEDuniverse, which help learn coding concepts, and powerful built-in utilities like Google office suite and Chromium. pi-topOS Polaris is the only education technology platform fully endorsed by the UK Oxford Cambridge RSA (OCR) examination board.  The new pi-top is available to order immediately from RS in EMEA and is available shortly in the Asia Pacific region.
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