Scorpion (processor)

Scorpion
General information
Launched2008
Designed byQualcomm
Common manufacturer
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate800 MHz to 1.7 GHz
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 1 or 2
Cache
L1 cache32 KiB/32 KiB
L2 cache256 KiB or 512 KiB
Architecture and classification
Instruction setARM, Thumb-2
History
SuccessorKrait

Scorpion is a central processing unit (CPU) core designed by Qualcomm for use in their Snapdragon mobile systems on chips (SoCs). It was released in 2008. It was designed in-house, but has many architectural similarities with the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPU cores.

Overview

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Qualcomm High Performance Processor Core and Platform for Mobile Applications" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-26.
  2. ↑ Brian Klug; Anand Lal Shimpi (February 21, 2012). "Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Performance Preview - 1.5 GHz MSM8960 MDP and Adreno 225 Benchmarks". Anandtech. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-28.