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.
Overview 10/12 stage integer pipeline with 2-way decode, 3-way out-of-order speculatively issued superscalar execution Pipelined VFPv3 and 128-bit wide NEON (SIMD) 3 execution ports 32 KB + 32 KB L1 cache 256 KB (single-core) or 512 KB (dual-core) L2 cache Single or dual-core configuration 2.1 DMIPS/MHz 65/45/28 nm process
See also Krait (CPU) List of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors Comparison of ARMv7-A cores Adreno
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