Intel produzirá SOC com processadores ARM em suas fábricas

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Segundo a Forbes, a gigante Intel começará a fabricação do novo SOC chamado Startix 10 que inclui processadores licenciados pela ARM. A produção será em suas fábricas por meio de sua filial Altera. Com este movimento a Intel entrará diretamente na competição com outros desenvolvedores e integradores de núcleos ARM como Samsung, TSMC ou Global Foundries.

Segundo anúncio da Altera, o novo SOC montará sobre a arquitetura Intel Tri-Gate a 14nm, o qual incorporará um potente processador Quad Core Cortex-A53 de 64bits no sistema, algo que já estão adotando outros fabricantes como Samsung. O sistema também suportará OpenCL.

Dados completos da tecnología implementada.

Industry’s First Gigahertz FPGAs and SoCs

• New ultra-high performance FPGA architecture
• 2x the core performance of prior generation high-end FPGAs
• >10 TFLOPs of single-precision floating-point DSP performance
• >4x processor data throughput of prior-generation SoCs

Break the Bandwidth Barrier with Unimaginable High-Speed Interface Rates

• 4x serial transceiver bandwidth from previous generation FPGAs for high port count designs
• 28 Gbps backplane capability for versatile data switching applications
• 56 Gbps chip-to-chip/module capability for leading edge interface standards
• Over 2.5 Tbps bandwidth for serial memory with support for Hybrid Memory Cube
• Over 1.3 Tbps bandwidth for parallel memory interfaces with support for DDR4 at 3200 Mbps

Lower Capital Expenditures (CapEx)

• Largest monolithic FPGA device with >4M logic elements offer an unprecedented level of integration capability
• Heterogeneous multi-die 3D solutions including SRAM, DRAM, and ASICs
• Next-generation HPS

Lower Operating Expenses (OpEX)

• Leveraging Intel’s leadership in process technology, Stratix 10 FPGAs offer the most power-efficient technologies
• 70% lower power than prior generation high-end FPGAs and SoCs
• 100 GFlops/Watt of single-pecision floating point efficiency
• Integrated host processor for operation, administration, and maintenance minimizes system down time

Versatile Heterogeneous Computing for Performance and Power-Efficient SoC Design

• 64 bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor optimized for ultra-high performance per watt
• Heterogeneous C-based modeling and hardware design with Altera SDK for OpenCL
• Heterogeneous debug, profiling, and whole chip visualization with Altera SoC EDS featuring ARM Development Suite™ (DS-5™) Altera Edition Toolkit

Reduce Time-to-Market

• Fastest compile times in the industry
• C-based design entry using the Altera SDK for OpenCL, offering a design environment that is easy to implement on FPGAs
• Start developing with Arria 10 devices and then migrate to footprint-compatible Stratix 10 devices
• Complementary Enpirion PowerSoCs will offer customers higher performance, lower system power, higher reliability, smaller footprint, and faster time-to-market to power Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs