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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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      For ~$140USD, you can get deeply, truly in touch with Low-End Lyfe: https://www.amazon.com/Nokia-2-2-Unlocked-Smartphone-T-Mobile/dp/B07SWFLKYW/ … Too much? New, unlocked, for ~$90, it's 2017's finest! https://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Unlocked-Smartphone-T-Mobile-MetroPCS/dp/B075FLQQMN/ … Basically, it's raining A53 cores out there and I don't know how y'all avoid getting pelted by 'em.

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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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      You might not remember the ARM Cortex-A53 -- other ARMv8 instruction-set chips have perhaps graced your life in recent years -- but it's probably the most-shipped general-purpose CPU core design of recent years. And billions of users have them in their phones.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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      Does the A53 suck? Depends. SoC vendors *could* grace it with 2MiB of cache. But nobody who produces an A53-based device today does that. Low-end means corner cutting, and nobody's advertising cache sizes. Meanwhile, "quad-core" and "octa-core" sure do get bandied about.

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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          What's going on there? Well, device manufacturers are assuming that punters don't understand the nuances of chip architecture and design (sacré bleu!) and instead buy parts with headline numbers they can put on the box. Cores are easily countable, turns out.

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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          Quality...real-world performance...those are the sorts of things that take investigation and get detailed at the high-end. Tech journalists give roughly zero attention to the budget end of the market. Everyone not choosing between a Galaxy S or Pixel or iPhone is on their own.

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        4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          The predictable consequence is that dozens of wildly successful models get introduced worldwide every year to basically no marketing support or press interest. Why? Low margins. No manufacturer will independently bring their low-margin device to the attention of a journalist.

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        5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          If the last decade has taught us anything, it's our tech press will fawn endlessly over high-end geegaws that will marginally improve wealthy lives, while entirely neglecting the ways in which tech is actaully transforming (for better and worse) the live of the less-well-heel'd.

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        6. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          The Verge, Gizmodo, C|Net, etc....they're basically TopGear. But we expect that now. The truly unconscionable failures are in traditional media that have tried to grow tech beats.

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        7. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          Anyway, the NYT's (et al's) failure to look -- to *really look* -- at the experiences of the median American phone user aside, the A53 is with us for the next decade. Count on it.

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        8. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 5 Oct 2019
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          Do you build websites? Run 'em on phones with A53s inside. You'll be glad (and, initially, sad) you did.

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        2. Luke‏ @lmcdo_ 5 Oct 2019
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          I'm sorry but no, the A53 sucks regardless of cache size. It's an in-order design with a tiny bit of flexibility to reorder slightly. It's only as big as it is to identically match the A57/72/73 instruction set. It's literally outperformed by the Cortex A9 situationally.

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          Also, the A53 isn't with us for the next decade, but the A55 is 90% the same. I wish the reporting was there, the cheeky headline writes itself: big.LITTLE has a big problem with little cores.

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