It has been a few years' journey but the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 series is finally shipping for revenue. This was confirmed by Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies (QDT).
Instead of the usual approach using existing ARM cores, Qualcomm decided to develop a brand new Falcore core. This is not a simply tuned up Kryo core you saw in the Snapdragon, it is a completely new approach.
Dileep Bhandarkar Vice President, Technology at QDT and Anand confirmed that you need to do a custom design to address customers' needs and to get the power/performance/surface sweet spot and to compete against the competition.
Centriq 2400 is a 398 mm2 chip, with 18 plus billion transistors. Considering that this is a 48 core solution, this is not that bad. One big surprise is that despite so many cores, Qualcomm managed to get the clock speeds to 2.2GHz based frequency and 2.6 GHz peak frequency.
These 48 cores are single thread cores and they are ARM V8 compliant, fifth generation custom design cores. As we reported before, Qualcomm is using its Falcore cores that are AArch64 only. A server doesn?t really need 32 bit stuff anymore as you definitely need to address more than 4GB memory per CPU these days.
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