Scorpion (processor) explained

Scorpion
Produced-Start:	2008
Slowest:	800
Fastest:	1.7
Slow-Unit:	MHz
Fast-Unit:	GHz
Designfirm:	Qualcomm
Manuf1:	Qualcomm
Arch:	ARM, Thumb-2
Numcores:	1 or 2
L1cache:	32 KiB/32 KiB
L2cache:	256 KiB or 512 KiB
Successor:	Krait

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^[1]
• Pipelined VFPv3^[2] 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

Notes and References

1. http://rtcgroup.com/arm/2007/presentations/253%20-%20ARM_DevCon_2007_Snapdragon_FINAL_20071004.pdf
2. Web site: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Performance Preview - 1.5 GHz MSM8960 MDP and Adreno 225 Benchmarks . . February 21, 2012 . Brian Klug . Anand Lal Shimpi . 2013-07-28.