Freescale begins sampling QorIQ T2080 processor
Freescale is now offering samples of its QorIQ T2080 processor; a dual threaded, 64bit device engineered for optimal network performance and energy efficiency.
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The T2080 features eight virtual cores and is designed for control plane or integrated control and data plane processing.
Target applications include mobile backhaul equipment, LTE/WCDMA channel cards, network switching and routing, intelligent NIC and military and aerospace products.
The device's dual threaded e6500 Power Architecture core is said to provide 1.7x the performance of a single threaded e6500 core.
Freescale claims it delivers up to 1.8GHz of performance while maintaining a short, seven stage pipeline for optimal latency response to unpredictable control plane code branches.
The e6500 core also features AltiVec technology with a 128bit single instruction multiple data vector processor, which performs calculations that dsps would otherwise handle, such as signal processing acceleration and radar processing, but at much lower power.