Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra Will Have Fifth "Companion Core"

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:37AM from the phone-still-dies-before-five dept.

Blacklaw writes with an article in Thinq about the upcoming quad-core Tegra chipset. Quoting the article: "Nvidia has released a few technical details of its upcoming 'Kal-El' Tegra processor, including a secret it's done well to keep under its hat thus far: it's a five-core, not four-core, chip." The fifth core will be clocked lower and is intended to let the system use little power without having to fully suspend. A few years ago Openmoko had a vaguely similar idea to include a microcontroller for low-resource idle tasks (e.g. GPS logging), but this design is superior since it should be more or less transparent to user space programs.

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In Soviet Russia by Roachie · 2011-09-20 08:54 · Score: 4, Funny

we call him "comrade core"

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Re:Damn it! by MachDelta · 2011-09-20 08:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Pfft.
The correct cyberpunkish term would be "auxiliary" core, since it sounds so badass and semi-mechanical.
Plus, most people can't spell auxilli- auxiler-, auxxi... the word, which makes it more exclusive.
And there's an X in it. Only the cool, eyeliner wearing words have x's... other than "extreme" anyways. That guy's a dick. He stuffed me in a locker once.
Anyways; Auxiliary core.
Yeah.