From InfoWorld: Apple pioneered the use of 64-bit processors in smartphones, but Nvidia claims its 64-bit Denver chip will be even faster when it appears in devices later this year.
Nvidia shared a few more details about Denver at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Monday. It's calling it "the world's first 64-bit ARM processor for Android."
Denver will be used in a 64-bit version of Nvidia's Tegra K1 chip. It will have two custom CPU cores and 192 Kepler graphics cores, which Nvidia says will provide PC-like performance for laptops, tablets, and high-end smartphones.
Like Apple's A7 chip, Denver is based on the ARMv8-A architecture.
Denver is "significantly outperforming" all its ARM-based rivals on benchmarks such as DMIPS and AnTuTu, Darrell Boggs, Nvidia's director of CPU architecture, told the Hot Chips crowd. One slide in his presentation specifically bragged that Denver performs faster than Apple's A7.
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