2012 -- ARM announces they are working on A53 and A57 and AMD annouces they'll be shipping Opteron A1100 in 2014.
2013 -- The Apple A7 ships doubling performance over ARM's A15 design.
2013 -- Qualcomm employee leaks that Apple's timeline floored them and their roadmap was "nowhere close to Apple's" (Qualcomm seems to switch to A57 design around here in desperation -- probably why the 810 was so disliked and terrible).
2014 -- Apple ships the A8 improving performance 25%.
early 2015 -- Samsung and Qualcomm devices ship with A57. Anandtech accurately describes it saying "Architecturally, the Cortex A57 is much like a tweaked Cortex A15 with 64-bit support." Unsurprisingly, the performance is very similar to A15.
late 2015 -- Apple ships A9 with a 70% boost in CPU performance.
later 2015 -- Qualcomm ships the custo 64-bit kryo architecture as the 820. It regresses in some areas, but offers massive improvements in others for something close to a 30% performance improvement over the 810 with A57 cores.
2016 -- AMD finally launches the A1100. ARM finally ships the A72 as their first design really tailored to the new 64-bit ISA.
Final Scores
Apple -- 2 years to ship new high-performance design
ARM -- 4 years to ship high-performance design, 5 years for new design
Qualcomm -- 4.5 to 5 years to ship new high-performance design
Sorry, something's definitely fishy. Nobody can design and ship that good of a processor in less than 2 years.
2011 -- ARM announces 64-bit ISA
2012 -- ARM announces they are working on A53 and A57 and AMD annouces they'll be shipping Opteron A1100 in 2014.
2013 -- The Apple A7 ships doubling performance over ARM's A15 design.
2013 -- Qualcomm employee leaks that Apple's timeline floored them and their roadmap was "nowhere close to Apple's" (Qualcomm seems to switch to A57 design around here in desperation -- probably why the 810 was so disliked and terrible).
2014 -- Apple ships the A8 improving performance 25%.
early 2015 -- Samsung and Qualcomm devices ship with A57. Anandtech accurately describes it saying "Architecturally, the Cortex A57 is much like a tweaked Cortex A15 with 64-bit support." Unsurprisingly, the performance is very similar to A15.
late 2015 -- Apple ships A9 with a 70% boost in CPU performance.
later 2015 -- Qualcomm ships the custo 64-bit kryo architecture as the 820. It regresses in some areas, but offers massive improvements in others for something close to a 30% performance improvement over the 810 with A57 cores.
2016 -- AMD finally launches the A1100. ARM finally ships the A72 as their first design really tailored to the new 64-bit ISA.
Final Scores
Apple -- 2 years to ship new high-performance design
ARM -- 4 years to ship high-performance design, 5 years for new design
Qualcomm -- 4.5 to 5 years to ship new high-performance design
Sorry, something's definitely fishy. Nobody can design and ship that good of a processor in less than 2 years.
https://www.hardwarezone.com.my/tech-news-qualcomm-employee-...