Scorpion (processor)

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.

Scorpion

General information
Launched	2008
Designed by	Qualcomm
Common manufacturer	Qualcomm
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	800 MHz to 1.7 GHz
Cache
L1 cache	32 KiB/32 KiB
L2 cache	256 KiB or 512 KiB
Architecture and classification
Instruction set	ARM, Thumb-2
Physical specifications
Cores	1 or 2
History
Successor	Krait

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