Apple’s iPhone Not Based on Marvell’s Xscale CPU?
Posted by dennis on January 31st, 2007 at 01:14am Comments
Even though two weeks ago the Italian CEO of Intel claimed that Apple’s upcoming iPhone will run on an Xscale CPU (which was originally developed by Intel but then was sold last year to Marvell), the smart lads at Infinite Loop have analyzed and cross-referenced a recent post by one of Apple’s employee that announced that Apple will be contributing some code to the LLVM ARM backend open source project:
“The improvements include support for ARM v4/v6, vfp support, soft float, pre/postinc support, load/store multiple generation, constant pool entry motion (to support large functions), and support for the darwin/arm ABI. In addition to ARM support, the backend now includes code generation support for the Thumb instruction set, which is effectively a completely new and different code generator.”, he wrote.
The brainy lads at Infinite Loop noticed that Xscale has no support for VFP, a coprocessor extension to ARM. Furthermore they’ve noticed that the Apple employee wrote about ARM v4/v6 support, whereas the XScale is a v5 ARM.
All this led them to believe that the iPhone will be powered by a Samsung processor, and not Xscale, as it was originally announced.
Source: Infinite Loop.
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