Over the last few years, system-on-chip (SoC) devices incorporating multicore processors have been appearing in a wide variety of consumer and industrial products. Samsung’s Galaxy 8 S8 smartphone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon eight-core 3.2-GHz processor; Apple’s latest A9 SoC, used in the iPhone 6S, includes the company’s own ARMv8-A dual-core CPU plus a six-core graphics processing unit (GPU)...
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