Intel Foundry has been releasing content on its products and services, and today, an interesting update came across. Intel showed a reference “Deer Creek Falls” SoC of what they call a “non-x86” design, manufactured on the 18A node. However, the design is actually Arm-based SoC. Consisting of seven cores, the reference SoC packs a single performance core, two efficiency cores, and four low-power efficiency cores, alongside the embedded PCIe and memory controller IPs and PHYs from ecosystem partners. While this may not be an impressive design, it demonstrates that a heterogeneous design of hybrid cores and IPs from ecosystem partners exists, and it’s likely that we will see some designs emerging from this. […]