NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 fifth-core architecture will be known as 4-PLUS-1
NVIDIA just released some new information this evening regarding the Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor. As many of you probably know the Tegra 3 quad-core actually contains five processing cores under the hood — yes 5. In the past we’ve heard the term ninja core, companion core, and a few others but the new official term is 4-PLUS-1. What does this mean? Read on below.
When NVIDIA first officially released more details regarding the Tegra 3 platform they were actually calling this fifth processor the companion core as we mentioned above. What this essentially does is offload any minor tasks from the quad-core down to the companion core to save battery …
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NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 fifth-core architecture will be known as 4-PLUS-1
Cory Gunther – androidcommunity.com
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