Qualcomm Centriq
{{short description|Brand of SoCs by Qualcomm}}
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| manuf1 = Samsung{{cite news|last1=Kennedy|first1=Anthony|title=Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Officially Launched|url=https://www.servethehome.com/qualcomm-centriq-2400-officially-launched/|access-date=14 November 2017|publisher=Serve the Home|date=8 November 2017}}
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Centriq ({{IPAc-en|s|ɛ|n|ˈ|t|r|iː|k}} {{Respell|sen|TREEK}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvZ8lRyV0o|title=Qualcomm ARM Server Centriq 2400 at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017|access-date=15 December 2019}}) is a brand of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for data centers. The Centriq central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set, with multiple CPU cores in a single chip.
History
=Pre-release=
In November 2014, Qualcomm announced it was developing an ARM ARMv8-A microarchitecture based CPU that was purpose-built for data centers.{{cite news|last1=Shilov|first1=Anton|title=Qualcomm Demos 48-core Centriq Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling|url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/10918/qualcomm-demos-48core-centriq-2400-server-soc-in-action-begins-sampling|access-date=14 November 2017|publisher=Anandtech|date=16 December 2016}} In December 2016, the company announced and demonstrated the first multi-core CPUs based on a custom ARM ARMv8-A microarchitecture.
=Early products=
The first Centriq 2400 series of products were made available to server manufacturers in November 2017. With these first products, Qualcomm introduced its "Falkor" ARMv8-A microarchitecture. The chip has up to 48 of Qualcomm's custom designed "Falkor" cores at up to 2.6GHz, with six-channel DDR4 memory and a 60 MB L3 cache.{{cite news|last1=Kennedy|first1=Patrick|title=Qualcomm Centriq 2400 ARM CPU from Hot Chips 29|url=https://www.servethehome.com/qualcomm-centriq-2400-arm-cpu-hot-chips-29/|access-date=14 November 2017|publisher=Serve The Home|date=23 August 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Kennedy|first1=Patrick|title=New Qualcomm Centriq 2400 details 48 cores 60MB L3 cache over 2GHz|url=https://www.servethehome.com/new-qualcomm-centriq-2400-details-48-cores-60mb-l3-cache-2ghz/|access-date=14 November 2017|publisher=Serve the Home|date=6 October 2017}}
Market environment
A number of reviews have noted at its release that the Centriq is expected to face significant competition from established x86-64 data-center CPU manufacturers Intel and AMD, and ARM microarchitecture server products such as Cavium's ThunderX2.{{cite news|last1=Cutress|first1=Ian|title=Analyzing Falkor's Microarchitecture|url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/11737/analyzing-falkors-microarchitecture-a-deep-dive-into-qualcomms-centriq-2400-for-windows-server-and-linux|access-date=14 November 2017|publisher=Anandtech|date=20 August 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Kennedy|first1=Patrick|title=Analyzing Key Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Market Headwinds|url=https://www.servethehome.com/analyzing-key-qualcomm-centriq-2400-market-headwinds/|access-date=14 November 2017|publisher=Serve the Home|date=8 November 2017}} In addition to competitive pressures, it has been noted that running established workloads on ARM microarchitectures requires re-optimizing and recompiling the software, or x86-64 emulation, presenting a barrier to entry for some potential customers.
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.qualcomm.com/products/qualcomm-centriq-2400-processor}}
{{ARM-based chips}}
Category:ARM-based systems on chips