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Marvell develops ‘quadruple’ core processor

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LONDON: Marvell Technology Group Limited, the supplier of chips for storage, communications and consumer electronics, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the United States, says it has developed the first ‘quadruple’ core processor in the world, based on the ARM architecture.

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The company said in a press release that its quad-core implementation will operate at above 1-GHz clock frequency on all 4 cores, thus giving high performance in the applications which can keep 4 cores fed with data.

Marvell Technology said it designed the quad-core for high-volume gaming applications as well as for other mass consumer applications.

The new quad-core is based on the same CPU architecture as Armada 500 and 600 processors, launched by Marvell Technology recently. These have been declared to be ARMv7 instruction set architecture processors, but the company has not revealed whether or not they are based on Marvell’s designs from the ground up or on a core supplied as intellectual property by ARM Holdings (based in Cambridge, England), like the Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9.

The Cortex-A9, which is an ARMv7 processor, has been designed to support up to 4-way multi-processing.

Marvell Technology did not specify the process technology that the quad-core is implemented in, where it is being made, what on-chip memory it is provided, or the typical power consumption of the quad-core. The company did not indicate, either, whether the quad-core design is complete and waiting to be manufactured, or whether it already has the silicon.

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