The Divinitus
The Divintus is a platform ready for the new internet and the latest mobile applications. Like the IBM Cell chip used in the PS3 it has an advanced multicore architecture utilising 26 cores giving a class-leading 8 gigaflops. The two general purpose cores are like an ordinary mobile CPU. They handle the core phone and operating system functions. The other cores are optimized for the Scene device function and advanced augmented reality applications. The 24 DSP cores and advanced processing architecture make the Divinutus the platform of choice for mobile devices of the future.
The mobile phone’s evolution is at a critical stage of development where phone functionality becomes of secondary importance. The last decade has seen phones go from communication devices to becoming an information, entertainment, social networking, life management, route planning and gaming devices. The apex is their transition to Scene devices capable of recognizing the environment around them and providing contextualised information on demand. The new internet, Web 4.0 or the Articulated Naturality Web (ANW), will see the experience of interaction with the environment and digital information become anew. 2010 has seen the feature set of smartphones achieve the minimum requirements for using the ANW but its the Divintus platform that offers the recommended requirements for the real ANW experience.
The 26 core Divinitus is the first in the line of high performance processors from QderoPateo and a 64 core version is in development. The new AR/AN games will require even more processing power for photorealistic graphics and demanding game physics processing seen on desktop games.
Future Scene devices may look like an iPad (which features an unused slot for a camera) which is why a 100+ core processor is planned later on in the Divinitus roadmap.
The limiting factor in advanced processors reaching the market throughout the history of large scale integrated electronics is manufacturing yield. This was such a problem that back in the mid-20th century one of the pioneering firms categorically stated that integrated electronics was impossible (I think it was said by Bell Lab after they had so many problems trying to fabricate 20 transistors onto a gallium arsenide wafer in the 50s). Modern chips integrate hundreds of millions of transistors so the problem of yield has been a bug bear for the electronic engineers till the advent of multicore designs. The Divinitus’s multicore architecture allows a design where more cores can be fabricated and if there are any errors then those cores deactivated.
This achieves a significantly higher yield than can be achieved by simple dual core designs and less waste makes it better value.
Official response to Engadget
Engadget: QderoPateo Ouidoo to pack 26-core chip, looks like Palm Pre and Windows Phone 7 love child
Steve Chao: I didn’t want to scare you with tripple digit cores, thought double digits should be sufficient to show you the future has arrived. I love Web OS but please be a bit more civilized next time by looking closer at the Ouidoo. The world is not all about Palm Pre, iPhone, WP7 phones, Blackberry or HTCs my friend.
Engadget: Really now? KIRFing a phone and a UI is one thing, but claiming to have a 26-core CPU (!) capable of 8-gigaflop (!) floating point operation — or the “equivalent of four iPads combined,” apparently — is one helluva stretch for a smartphone.
Steve Chao: Once again, it’s a Scene, not a smartphone. 26-core CPU is at the low end of a true Scene Device. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about then I’m willing to prep you.
Engadget: so it won’t be long before we find out whether this is just some absurd vaporware.
Steve Chao: You’ve no idea…
Lastly, Divinitus is the multi-core ultra-low power consumption processor architecture. When I say 26 cores, I meant 26 cores, and if Intel isn’t capable of making it for a mobile device then they’re not competitive enough.
Pateo
Articulated Naturality Oracle
When Real blended into Virtual, when Space and Air went into harmony, when digital emotions showed its story….
Articulated Naturality Web it is!