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Arm's heterogeneous CPU arrangement pairing large high-performance cores with small energy-efficient cores of the same instruction set, letting the scheduler move each thread to whichever core suits its demand.
- Also known as
- DynamIQ, P-core/E-core, Hybrid architecture, Heterogeneous multiprocessing
- Type
- Technology
- Domain
- Compute & AI Hardware, CPU architecture
- Also relevant to
- Design & Architecture
Notes
Intel adopted the same idea for desktops with performance and efficiency cores from Alder Lake onwards.
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