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  • twotwotwo - Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - link

    Three Rockchip A17-based Chromebooks dropped today (the others are from Haier and Hisense).

    A17 sounds like an amped-up A15, but, alas, it looks like A17 is lower-end or at best even: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7739/arm-cortex-a17
  • sprockkets - Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - link

    That chip has A12's in it but since ARM says they changed it a little so that it equals A17's, so they are the A17 now.

    Works great for Android boxes. Good enough to play N64 at 1080p (the CPU is more the limiter instead of the graphics). I've tested 4k content on it too with a 4k tv and it works without a hitch.
  • mczak - Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - link

    Technically, it's not really an amped-up A15. As was already mentioned, it's a slightly improved A12 (CCI among others changed, so unlike the A12 it's now possible to combine A17 clusters with A7 ones). From a theoretical point of view, this is more like a really spiced up A9 on steroids - it is still 2-wide issue, unlike the A15 which is 3-wide issue. However, it is vastly improved compared to Cortex A9, among others way more OoO resources - which should make it match the A15 in performance or so they claim. At hopefully lower power draw. I really want to see some proper review of a device with A17 in it!
    I think the only problem with it is that it's a bit late at least for the smartphone party - everybody is now hopping on the 64bit train even for low-end devices, so everybody is shipping 4xCortex-A53 on the lower end (even though 2xA17 would probably provide a much better experience).
  • aryonoco - Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - link

    Hear hear

    Joshua (or perhaps it was Andrei?) said a while ago that they were going to review A17 but sourcing the right device was difficult apparently.

    I would love to now more about A17. From Android benchmarks from not-very-reputable sources I've seen, it more than matches A15 at the same clock speed. Come to think of it, 4xA17 at 2.5Ghz should be pretty potent actually.
  • twotwotwo - Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - link

    Haha, the "but" in "sounds like an amped-up A15, *but*..." was supposed to convey "but it's not."

    Anyhow, yes, I'd love to see it properly reviewed. In the post I linked to, Anand said "ARM expects to be able to deliver similar performance to the Cortex A15 (in mobile apps/benchmarks, likely not in absolute performance), but in a much smaller area and at a lower power." We'll see, I guess! The Verge got to play with the Hisense laptop and got the impression the CPU was "pretty solid," which is encouraging.
  • BackInAction - Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - link

    No 13" model? I guess for K-8. But as an adult, I find 11" screens and keyboards too small if used for more a few moments.
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