Chip designer legging it after Arm
Brit chip designer Imagination Technologies today debuts its APXM-6200 RISC-V CPU cores, aimed at powering smart TVs, wearables, Internet of Things, embedded hardware, and similar gear.
APXM-6200 cores are designed similarly to Arm's Cortex-A series. Its 11-stage pipeline is a little longer than the eight-stage pipeline for cores like the popular Cortex-A53, though is a little leaner on the cache compared to more recent Cortex-A cores, with up to 128 KB L1 and 1 MB L2 per core, with no option for L3 cache.
While Cortex-A cores are used for all sorts of things, Imagination is pushing smart devices like smart TVs, wearables, and speakers as potential use cases for APXM-6200 cores. The 128-bit vector registers on APXM-6200 cores could also be utilized for AI-focused applications like robotics, and there's even an option to add on AI accelerators to APXM-6200 CPU designs. These accelerators can even come from third parties.
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