Could dual ARM cpu's function (solved)

[GoldenLag]

Im thinking in the future of say an dual snapdragon 835 laptop or phone. Could it be theoretically possible? Or would a monolith ARM cpu be more likely?

[Theguywhobea]

Seems pretty unlikely to me. Even with x86, you don't really see it at all in the consumer market, so I doubt anyone would even be working on making something like this. Some ARM CPU's kind of are like dual CPU's already, they are just both on the same die. For example the 8 core Exynos CPU on the Odroid XU4 has essentially two different 4 core CPU's in the same package.

[GoldenLag]

Ah i see. I thinking of this in the light of ARM based windows 10 laptops being due soon. Dual 835's would make a neat laptop with 8 stronger and 8 weaker cores.

[AbleRyder]

Unless I'm entirely wrong, I'm pretty sure that Snapdragon is an SoC basically containing the RAM, GPU, LTE, CPU and everything, so having two of the same thing kind of doesn't make sense. As for ARM it kinda does. 

[Sauron]

It's most likely possible to have multiple arm cpus working together, but it wouldn't make any sense in a consumer product. If you need more parallel power just add more cores, it's much simpler and more efficient on this scale.

[DocSwag]

It could be possible but not with 835s. You need special circuitry on the CPU itself for that to work, not to mention having two CPUs isn't usually a better option than just having one larger one unless you're dealing with somewhat larger CPUs or it'll end up being significantly cheaper to just use two CPUs (like how it is for amd)

[Radium_Angel]

It's not about the cores...it's about the programs written to take advantage of said cores...

[Guest]

Like @Sauronand @DocSwag mention, its possible but Consumer chips are not designed for this use case. If you really want dual socket anything, you will probably only see that under commercial/server instances, such as the ThunderX.

[GoldenLag]

Ive gotten the answers ive searched for. I assumed there was a barrier for doing so, however i didnt know what the barrier would be. 

Thanks

[TheCherryKing]

There are scalable ARM CPU's in the server market. The latest AMD Opertons A-Series are ARM-based.