MIPS technologies has developed a new processor architecture, announced that is specially designed for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The company claims that the proAptiv core is just as fast as ARM’s upcoming Cortex A15-core.
Compared with the current high-end 1074K design of MIPS would be the proAptiv core sixty to seventy-five percent faster. MIPS also makes the comparison with the upcoming Cortex A15 design from ARM, and both chips would be at a clock speed of 1GHz equivalent performance. MIPS based on estimates of ARM, the Cortex A15 are still no benchmark results are known, but he would be about fifty percent faster than the Cortex A9 design.
MIPS focuses with the proAptiv core is on tablets and smartphones, but also sees opportunities for media players and other networked devices. The mobile version can be from one to four cores with a maximum clock speed of 1.5 GHz. To this speed to obtain the chips, according to MIPS, however, according to a 28nm process to be manufactured. In networking equipment would be the clock speed increased to more than 2GHz, and there would be a maximum of six cores can be linked.
The proAptiv cores in a multicore environment, individually clocked and the voltage also can be regulated separately. This is also the case with modern chips that use the ARM architecture. Compared with that chipontwerpen of competitor ARM would be the chips from MIPS take up less space. The processor cores are equipped with 256KB to 8MB L2 cache, with a speed of 500MHz.
Earlier this month brought Google a new version of the ndk for its Android operating system, that support for the MIPS architecture added. It also helps MIPS developers and companies running Android on MIPS chips. The company to port all the Linux-kernels and makes them available on his website, which manufacturers then through a by the company itself developed method Android for the MIPS micro-architecture can build.
There are currently no Android smart phones on the market that of a MIPS processor to use. However, the company got together with processorfabrikant Ingenic and manufacturer Ainovo at the end of last year with the Novo 7 tablet. This has a 7″screen and a JZ4770 chip, which uses the MIPS architecture. The tablet runs on Android 4.0.
