
Qualcomm Saphira isn't turning up much in search engines besides some trademark applications and the likes, but this new CPU is seeing quick support in GCC, perhaps due to GCC 8 feature development ending soon.
The basic patch adds the new -mcpu and -mtune options for this "saphira" model name. The patch confirms that Qualcomm Saphira is an ARMv8.3-A processor and is making use of the company's Falkor CPU cores. Falkor only ended up getting officially announced this summer as a CPU core built for "cloud workloads" and servers and is a fully-custom ARM design. There can be up to 48 Falkor CPUs on a single SoC.
Qualcomm had been using the "Centriq" branding around the Falkor CPU cores while now there is this new Saphira that is for either next-gen or targeting a different segment. We should see soon enough.
Saphira also turned up in LLVM Git for LLVM/Clang 6.0 quietly one month ago.
Perhaps we'll hear more of Qualcomm's Saphira next week at SC17.
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