We know TSMC's energy-miser 28-nanometer manufacturing process has a lot of headroom,
but the company just ratcheted expectations up by a few notches. Lab
workers at Taiwan's semiconductor giant have successfully run a
dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
processor at 3.1GHz under normal conditions. That's a 55 percent higher
clock speed than the 2GHz maximum that TSMC normally offers, folks, and
about twice as fast as a 40nm chip under the same workload. Don't
expect that kind of clock speed from your next smartphone or tablet,
though: expect processors of this caliber to find "high-performance
uses," which takes us that much closer to NVIDIA's Project Denver as well as other ARM-based desktops, notebooks and servers that should give x86 chips a run for their money.
Via
engadget.com
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