From PC World: Qualcomm's introducing its Snapdragon 820 processor using the latest and most annoying trend in tech: dribble out one small detail at a time over the span of weeks. We've already heard about the GPU/ISP and the DSP, and now Qualcomm is talking about the Kyro CPU. Unfortunately, the blog post in which it details the CPU is thin on details.
The Snapdragon 820 is said to be optimized for "heterogeneous computing," one of the latest buzzwords in CPUs. It's a fancy way of saying "the CPU is made to divide up tasks between it and specialized hardware like the GPU, DSP, or image processor instead of doing everything by itself." Without any details about exactly what is going on inside the processor, it's a fairly meaningless buzzword.
Qualcomm says it's "Symphony System Manager" makes all the various parts of the Snapdragon 820 work together for higher performance and lower power use. But mobile processors have had sophisticated hardware to manage the power and performance of CPU cores and the GPU and DSP and such for quite some time now. The company didn't go into detail about exactly how the Symphony System Manger works, and what makes it different than the similar hardware on its previous chips.
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