Scorpion (processor)

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| name = Scorpion

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| produced-start = 2008

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| slowest = 800

| fastest = 1.7

| slow-unit = MHz

| fast-unit = GHz

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| designfirm = Qualcomm

| manuf1 = Qualcomm

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| arch = ARM, Thumb-2

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| numcores = 1 or 2

| l1cache = 32 KiB/32 KiB

| l2cache = 256 KiB or 512 KiB

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| successor = Krait

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Scorpion is a central processing unit (CPU) core designed by Qualcomm for use in their Snapdragon mobile systems on chips (SoCs). It was released in 2008. It was designed in-house, but has many architectural similarities with the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPU cores.