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Huge props to the team for finding this out. What a nasty issue.

One question about the intro, which states that this is the first mass produced AMP architecture, but isn't the PlayStation 3's Cell CPU one?



Cell behaves more like a CPU + GPGPU system, big.LITTLE can schedule an instruction stream on any core of the cluster (depending on the configuration setup), on Cell you'd primary use the general-purpose PPE from which you'd start (and chain) vector-based threads on SPEs.

PPE and SPE don't even share an ISA, SPE have a custom-built SIMD-oriented ISA.


The difference is that big.LITTLE ARMs use the same instruction set on all cores. In general I wouldn't expect a lot of terminological rigor from blog posts.




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