Scorpion (processor)

Scorpion
General information
Launched	2012?
Designed by	Qualcomm
Common manufacturer(s)	Qualcomm;
Cache
L1 cache	16 KiB/16 KiB
L2 cache	1 MiB or 2 MiB
Architecture and classification
Instruction set	ARMv7
Physical specifications
Cores	1 or 2;

Scorpion is a central processing unit (CPU) core designed by Qualcomm for use in their Snapdragon mobile systems on chips (SoC's). It is based on the ARMv7 instruction set and 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
65/28 nm process